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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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the 20th, the second three daysafterwards, when the nest was taken. Tlie other nest was at a height ofabout ten feet in an erect bull-oak (Camurina). It was also building.The first egg was deposited on the 18th, then an egg on each of thetwo following days. Full clutch, three. Nearer home, on the Upper Wembee, November, 1890, with theMessrs. Brittlebank, I found two more Spinys nes-ts, as we calledthem. One was most charmingly situated in a wi-eath of featheryseeding clematis that adorned a bvishy acacia (see illustration), theother being situated in a shapely native cherry tree (Exocarpus).Dates, 8th and 11th respectively. The Messrs. Brittlebank have found the nests of the Spiny-cheekedHoneyeater in the following trees and shrubs, namely : bursaria, lepto-spermimi, dodonEea, casuarina, exocarpus, and in another tree thatgrows by the river bank which they forgot the botanical name of;also in clematis and loranthus. Breeding months end of September or beginning of October toDecember.
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NESTS A.\D EGGS 01- AVSTRALIAN BIRDS. 429 In tlie British Museum Catalogue the Spiny-cheeked Honeyeateris placed in the same genus as the Wattle Birds (Amnthnrhfrrn).Gould, although somewhat dubious on the point, placed it in a distinctgenus. Oologically speaking, he was coiTect in doing so. My conespdrulent, Mr. Tom Cai-tcr, brought under my noticea Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater which lie obtained near the North-westCape. It differs from AranthixjeniiK rufigularix in its smaller size,lighter or more yollowi.sh tinge of the plumage, and by the yellowspines on the cheeks instead of white. Tliis variety I have pro\isionallynamed A. flnvnranthus, or Yellow-spined Honeyeater.* Comparative dimensions in inches of the eastern and western birds :.1. rupi/iihiri^. length lOj,, wing Auh. tail 4;,, bill -75, tarsus 1-0;A. flavacanthux, length 9^, wing 40, tail 4 bill -7, tarsus 9. 360.—ENTitMYZ.\ CYANOTis, Latham.-—(346) BLUE-FACED HONEYEATER. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv.

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