. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . ins in the Brigalow (acacia) scrub. In Victoria, although the Yellow Shrike Robin especially enjovsthe dark dank recesses of the gieat forest gullies, it may be observedin more open localities, such as in the belts of coastal tea-tree (Leptos-permum) near the sea. I have taken its nest in the diy scrub of theBendigo district, and once saw a pair of these birds in some acaciabrush on the lower Murray near Echuca. Naturally some of the Yellow Shrike Robins exhibit great
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . ins in the Brigalow (acacia) scrub. In Victoria, although the Yellow Shrike Robin especially enjovsthe dark dank recesses of the gieat forest gullies, it may be observedin more open localities, such as in the belts of coastal tea-tree (Leptos-permum) near the sea. I have taken its nest in the diy scrub of theBendigo district, and once saw a pair of these birds in some acaciabrush on the lower Murray near Echuca. Naturally some of the Yellow Shrike Robins exhibit great anxietywhen a person approaches a nest with young. They go hoppingabout with measured pace over the giound, at each hop flattening theirbodies, wlule their pretty yellow breasts cleave to the eai-th. Atintervals the wings arc partially extended, and all through the actingis the embodiment of i)ainful despair. Mr. Hennann Laus poetical allusions to the Yellow Shrike Robinare, It is early morning, just as the dawn is approaching. Lying half The genus Eopsaltria is intermediate between the Pachycifhalina and NEST OF THE YELLOW-BREASTED SHRIKE ROBIN From a Ihotv by the Author N/^STS AXD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 313 awake, half dreaming, in my lonely tent close behind the palm wold ofCooyer scrub, I hear a fine, equal, oft-repeated note in the if heralding tlie golden sun, and which fills my heai-t with thankful-ness to my great Creator. Tlie notes emanate from this dear httlebird, which also sings its psiilm of praise to its Maker at early dawn{EupsftJtria, the birds generic name, literally means Psalm of dawn ). The Yellow Shrike Robin builds a nest manufactiued out of string-like underbark. lined inside with diy glass and a few withered leaveslike those of the melaleuca, and usually situated in a three-pronged forkof a small tree. Lajs two, rarely three, eggs, and is an early (South Queensland), October, 1883. It is just possible that
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