The Emu (1901) The Emu emu15aust Year: 1901 ^''igif^'] , .Vo^CA-o;;,//(r Yelloiv-bellied Shyikc-'l'il. 79 camp they had Ix'cn wont to patronize. For several days in the toUowing month we tried to trace the male bird as he left the camp, but it always went in what was ultimately found to be the wrong direction. However, the bird did contribute to the locating of the nest by the utterance, while building, of a melan- choly monotone, as characteristic as the sweet nesting-note of the Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin {Eopsaltria australis). At times this note would be emitted just once, very
The Emu (1901) The Emu emu15aust Year: 1901 ^''igif^'] , .Vo^CA-o;;,//(r Yelloiv-bellied Shyikc-'l'il. 79 camp they had Ix'cn wont to patronize. For several days in the toUowing month we tried to trace the male bird as he left the camp, but it always went in what was ultimately found to be the wrong direction. However, the bird did contribute to the locating of the nest by the utterance, while building, of a melan- choly monotone, as characteristic as the sweet nesting-note of the Yellow-breasted Shrike-Robin {Eopsaltria australis). At times this note would be emitted just once, very softly, and again the Nest and Eggs of Yellow-IjcUicd Shnke-Tit. FROM A PHOTO. BY A. H. CHISHOUM. Tit would become more loquacious, and continuously express satisfaction with the world in general, and its mate in particular. Without this bar, the finding of the nest would have been doubly difficult, for the single, soft note is too ventriloquial to be easily located, and a little cluster at the top of a saphng 40 feet in height is rather much to look for in a forest. It was on 24th September that, having traced it to a hkely
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