. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . TURKEY. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v., pi. —Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxii., p. 468. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Gould : Birds of Australia (1848),also Handbook, vol. ii., pp. 152-3 (1S65); Ramsay : Proc. , p. 116 (1876); *Le Souef: Ibis, p. 15 (1899). Geographical Dixtribution.—Queensland and New South Wales. Nest.—A large rotund mound of earth, chiefly black vegetable mould,with an admixture of decaying matter, some of t
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . TURKEY. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v., pi. —Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxii., p. 468. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Gould : Birds of Australia (1848),also Handbook, vol. ii., pp. 152-3 (1S65); Ramsay : Proc. , p. 116 (1876); *Le Souef: Ibis, p. 15 (1899). Geographical Dixtribution.—Queensland and New South Wales. Nest.—A large rotund mound of earth, chiefly black vegetable mould,with an admixture of decaying matter, some of the mounds being sur-rounded with sticks. Usually situated in dense scrub or i , about 12 feet in diameter at the base, or a circumferenceof about 34 to 36 feet, and height about 2^ feet. Eggs.—Complement to a mound—if used by a pair of birds, twelveto fifteen ; if used by several birds, , three pairs, thirty-five to thirty-six; elliptical in shape, while some arc more or less compressed at oneend; texture of shell coarse; siuface without gloss, and rough; colour, •No dimensions 5 IDH C/2 XH O 2 o J y .VESTS AND EGGS 01 AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 709 pm-p white, more or less stained with tlie earth of the mouud. Dimeii-sious iu inches of four eggs from the same moimd: (1) 3-85 x 2-42,(2) 3-57 X 2-35, (3) 3-55 x 2-37, (4) 3-o x 2-38. Apparently four types,selected from a full mound (35 eggs): long oval, 3-7 x 2-42 ; ellipticallyincUncd, 3-44 x 2-38 ; elliptical, 3-63 x 2-36 ; oval, 3-67 x 2-2. The eggs;u-e placed small ends downward in circles or tiers; but the exactuumljcr of eggs to a circle and the distances apart of both eggs andcii-cles are not definitely settled. Observations.—Of :ill the ti-uly remarkable denizens of the denseEastern scrubs probably none is more extraordinary than the singularWattled Talegallus, or so-called Brush Turkey—a mound-raising bird. Gould possibly ovei--reached the southern limits of the range of theTalegal
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