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Identifier: nestseggsofbirds04nort (find matches)
Title: Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: North, Alfred J. (Alfred John), 1855-1917
Subjects: Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Tasmania Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Eggs Australia Tasmania Birds -- Australia Birds -- Australia Tasmania
Publisher: Sydney : Australian Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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red dots,spots and rounded andoval blotches of pale pur-plish-red, intermingledwith similar under-lyingmarkings of purplish-greyand light inky-grey,the latter colour beingalmost obsolete; three ofthe specimens ha\e themarkings fairly evenlydistributed, on the otherthey predominate on thelower end, and where inall specimens a few lightolive-green markingsare found. Length (\)j-oi X 1-46 inches; (B)2i4 X i44 inches; (C)2-09 X i46 inches; (D)2-07 X i5 inches. Theaccompanying figure isreproduced fromaphoto-graph kindly forwardedat the same time by Mr.Woodward. It repre- NEST AND K(;GS OF AZURE-BURASTEI) GALLINULE. sents the eggs describedabove, and the nest from which they were taken. Immature birds may be distinguished by the feathers on the centre of the fore-neck andupper breast being dull greyish-brown, which widens out into an elongated patch on the lowerbreast and abdomen, the greyish-brown feathers on these parts being broadly margined at thetips with whity-brown. Wing 10-4 inches.
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a FULICA. 233 Fulica australis. AUSTRALIAN CiJOI. Jndica an.tralis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1845, p. i> ; i,l,^ Htl.s. Austr., fol. Vol. VI., pi. 74 (184^) ;«/., Handbk. Bd.s. Austr., Vol. II., p. 3-9 (1S(m); Sliarpp, Cat. P.ds. Brit. Mus., Vol.XXIII., p. 217 (1894) ; id., Haiid-l. Bd.s., Vol. I., p. 110 (1S9I)). ADur/r .MALE. —(/r»tm/ colour above ureyish-hlack sliyhthj tinyM icUh olive ; upper wing-coverlsdull brown, with indufincl /ish-hlaak ; headand neck black, passing iido dark viuom brown on the remainder of the under surface, washed withgreyish-black on the long lower jlank leathers : under tail-corerts dull black .• bill light bluish-grey,passing into greenish-white „n thr fmntal plate ■ legs and feet grey ,• iris red. Total length in thetbsh 14 inches, uAug ;■.., tail ., bill, with fro,it.a.l pla

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