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Identifier: nestseggsofbirds01nort (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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EXPLANATION OF PLATE A 4. Nest of Gebtoone albwulakis.White-throated Bush-Warbler. NESTS AND EGGS UE AIJSTKALIAN 13UIUS. PLATE A. 4.
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GERYGONE. 201 From ^(r. Boyd I have obtained several nests and sets of eg.t^s for description, also thefemale that was captured on the nest. The nests of Gcrygonc magnirostris are long pendantstructures varying from sixteen to twenty-four inches in length, the drooping end of a nearlyleafless twig being covered with an irregular layer of nest-material, about two inches and a halfin diameter, and from nine to twelve inches in length before the nest proper is commenced.This is of a domed form, with a protecting hood well concealing the narrow entrance, andterminating at the lower extremity of the dome in a beard or tail, which is typical of the nestsof this genus. They are composed of shreds of bark, cocoa-nut fibre, dried grasses and weeds,skeletons of leaves, and the silky covering of spiders nests, all matted together, and resemblingmore a hanging mass of dibris left by floods than a nest. The interior cavities of the nestsare small and are warmly lined with feathers. An average one

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