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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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that the birds areby no means .shy. niirl their call is frequentlv heard in the scnib duringbreeding season. Mr. K. Broadbcnt found the bird prevalent at Cowrie Crock, fiuHhcrsouth in the Cnrdwcll district, and once found at Dalrvinple (Ja)) a nestin which the proper inhabitants of the tormitarium were actuallyrunning over the four young ones, which in turn were sU-inding amongstthe insects. He also observed a nest of this Kingfisher in a mound oftermites on Bellonden-Kcr Range, at an elevation of 1.800 (ocl. Mr. IlariT Barnard, when collecting at Cape York for Mr. 11. LeSouef anri nUur Melbourne gentlemen, establislicd quiti- a recordfor the iiuml>cr of ucsKs he found of this beautiful Kingfi.sher. InFebruary. 1807, between the 2nd .ind Ifith day.s. he visited no Ic-wthan thirty-five ne.sts, a,s many as a dozen being di.scovered in one day,all containing three egg,!, except in one insljvncc of two. Tlie followingis an interesting field note by Mr. Barnard on the subject:—Silver-
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WHITE-TAILED KINGFISHERS NEST IN ANT HILLOCK.Fiom a Photo l>y D. Le Soiiv/. NESTS AND EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 563 tailed Kingfishers were found breeding both in trees and on thegiound ; sonic of the nests I took were twenty and tliirty feet fromthe ground. They seem to have a certain day to stait breeding, as Iopened ten nests one day and I did not get an egg; five days laterI opened twelve nests and got three fresh eggs out of each nest.Breeding mouths, November to February. I have given a mostinteresting illustration by Mr. Le Souef, showing the mouth of theKinsrfishers tunnel in the white ants hillock. Sub-order—Coccyges :—Cuckoos, &c. FAMILY—CUCULlD.^i : CUCKOOS. Sub-family—Cuculin^. 449.—CucuLus iNTERMEDius, Vahl—(377)C. rnnnriiiiles, Miiller. ORIENTAL CUCKOO. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv., pi. 84. Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xix., p. 252. Previous Description of Eggs.—Hume (Gates ed.) : Nests and EggsIndian Birds, vol. i

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