. The Emu . :^. ° ^KCKSOV, Haunts of the Letter-winged Kite. 163 on the edges of long, narrow water-holes, which arc filled bytlie Diamantina when it overflows in flood time, as was the caseduring last Feliruary. The seas of water on this great expanseof flat country during a flood must be a wonderful sight. As arule, about 12 to 18 pairs of the birds constituted a colony whenbreeding. After examining a very big series of the nests, wefound that the smallest were always the newest, and by far thecleanest. Often these structures were well hidden in the greenleaves of the trees, and
. The Emu . :^. ° ^KCKSOV, Haunts of the Letter-winged Kite. 163 on the edges of long, narrow water-holes, which arc filled bytlie Diamantina when it overflows in flood time, as was the caseduring last Feliruary. The seas of water on this great expanseof flat country during a flood must be a wonderful sight. As arule, about 12 to 18 pairs of the birds constituted a colony whenbreeding. After examining a very big series of the nests, wefound that the smallest were always the newest, and by far thecleanest. Often these structures were well hidden in the greenleaves of the trees, and in clumps of mistletoe growing in greatmasses on the trees ; then, again, they are often exposed to viewand placed away from all foliage, though well up from the one case came under our notice where a nest was buHt in atree other than a coolabah ; this was found in a clump of mistletoe{Loranthiis exocarpi, Behr.) in a white-wood tree {Atalaya hemi-glauca, F. v, M.) Many of them, and the limbs an
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