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Title: Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Campbell, Archibald James, 1853-
Subjects: Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Australia
Publisher: Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e examples aremore of a purjDlish tone, with cloudy markings, more or less, all overthe surface. Dimensions in inches of a Ta.smanian clutch : (1) 83 x -64,(2) ■82x-65, (3) ■81x-62; of a pair from the mainland: (1) 82 x-6,(2) •82X-58. (Plate 11.) Oliserratidiis.—This Wren-like bird, with its pretty warble, whichseems to keep time to the movement of its erect tail, claimed myattention in Tasmania, where one nest was found on the ground in thecentre of a low gorse bush. The Field Wren may be described as a striped bird, with a gi-eenishwash on the upper surface, wliile the under parts have a brownish tinge.There is a distinctive white line over each eye. Length 41 inches,wing 2i inches, tail 2J- inches, bill h inch, tarsus g inch. Some Tasmania n collectoi-s call the bird by the somewhat uneupho-nious name of Stink Bird, or Stinker, because of its peculiar scent,which will cause sporting dogs sometimes to set the bird. I have noticed this same species on the mainland, notably at
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NEST OF THE STRIATED FIELD WREN. From a Photo by the Author. .VESTS A.VD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BINDS. 27y Mordialloc, Oakleigh, aud other places in Victoria. There are also un-doubted examples of this bird in the National Museum, Melbourne,taJcen in the same colony. Moreover, I have no doubt that the eggs procured on Coode Island,at the mouth of the Yarra, by Mr. A. J. Noith, and described by liim,axe referable to this species, and not to (J. cii/iipestris. I procuixd,through my son, birds from the precise locality, aud comparing themwith the Tasmaniau bird, can find no diUerence, except that the main-land bird is a trifle smaller (as a general rule, birds of a species found onthe mainland are, I find, smaller than the same species from Tasmania). JMr. A. E. Brent has found nests of the Striated Field Wren withan admixture of seaweed in their constniction, and placed just aboveliigh-water mark on the Derwent, Tasmania, a favourite locality beingthe railway embankment close to that river.

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