. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . itis not confined to thecoastal and contii^uousdistricts, but is found,although in far lessnumbers, scores of milesfrom the sea-board. Usrange from theneighbourhood of Cook-town, in North-easternQueensland, souththrough the EasternI >istricts of that Stateinto New South Wales,where it is common inthe brushes on theTweed River,andespeci-ally in the Condong Range, occurring throughout the northern coastal districts as far south as the Hunter gap occurs on the coast between Newcastle and Wollongong. It is fou
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . itis not confined to thecoastal and contii^uousdistricts, but is found,although in far lessnumbers, scores of milesfrom the sea-board. Usrange from theneighbourhood of Cook-town, in North-easternQueensland, souththrough the EasternI >istricts of that Stateinto New South Wales,where it is common inthe brushes on theTweed River,andespeci-ally in the Condong Range, occurring throughout the northern coastal districts as far south as the Hunter gap occurs on the coast between Newcastle and Wollongong. It is found again throughoutthe Illawarra District of Eastern New South Wales, and a specimen was obtained in the centralportion of the State, as far inland as Honeybugle Station, about twenty-five miles south-westof Nyngan, and three hundred and twenty-five miles in a direct line from the cast. From Cooktown, North-eastern Queensland, Mr. E. Olive wrote me ;— The nesting-moundof the Brush Turkey is made by scratchmg earth, leaves, sticks, etc., into a heap, and working. BRUSH TURKEY. 166 MK(iAlUl) thesuiface refuse for fioin thirty to forty feet from the mound, liy Lontinually scratchingback. Tlie size of the mound for the Inst hatching, is from seven feet to ten feet in diameter, liyabout three feet deep, and as each laying season comes on, the mound is increased nntil it isabout twenty-five feet in diameter by six feet deep. The nesting-mounds are prepared inSeptember, to get the necessary heat for incubation, the laying season starting in October andlasting to about December. From my observations much depends on climatic changes as toearly or late layings, the showery weather being the most favoured by the Brush digging out a mound there is a difliculty in getting straight down, on account of the sticks,which \ary from a fibrous root to a branch four inclies in diameter and seven feet eggs are deposited on end in holes, made by the parent bird (eighteen i
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