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Title: The Emu
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Australasian Ornithologists' Union Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Australasia Periodicals
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Ornithologists' Union
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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black and one brown) in the nest, but one ofthe black fell out just before the photo, was taken. The twoparent birds were both black. Again, under date ist December, Mr. Cornwall writes :— I donot know that I can add anything to what was said last yearwhen I found three nests each containing three young birds, intwo of which one was brown and two black, and in the othertwo brown and one black. The three which I photographed Istill have alive, and they are doing well, and I also have anotheryoung brown one which a young friend of mine brought me.When he captured it it had left the nest, and was in companyof two black ones. I found three other nests with young onesthis year ; one had three and the others two each, but all wereblack. In every case the two parent birds were black. To my mind it is conclusively proved that the black andbrown birds are identical, and all we have to settle now is whetherthe young brown is the male or female, and at what age they The Emu, Vol. IV. PLATE VII
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Nest of Black Butcher-Bird, with Young—one black and one brown. FROM A PHOTO. BY E. M. CORNWALL. The Emu, Vol. IV. PLATE VIII.

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