. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . hem, also a photo-graph, wluch is reproduced herein. The eggs I desciibed in 1893 were from New Zealand (I am aware thatSeebohm treats the White-headed Stilt from that quarter as a sub-species, while Gould and Sir Walter Buller regard it as identical withthe Australian bird), and were taken by Mr. J. C. iVlcLean on the 2ndNovember, 1890, at Repongaere, Poverty Bay, from a nest placed on asmall islet or mound of earth, two feet or three feet square, rising froma sheet
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . hem, also a photo-graph, wluch is reproduced herein. The eggs I desciibed in 1893 were from New Zealand (I am aware thatSeebohm treats the White-headed Stilt from that quarter as a sub-species, while Gould and Sir Walter Buller regard it as identical withthe Australian bird), and were taken by Mr. J. C. iVlcLean on the 2ndNovember, 1890, at Repongaere, Poverty Bay, from a nest placed on asmall islet or mound of earth, two feet or three feet square, rising froma sheet of .shallow water. Tliere were two other nests on adjoiningislets—one containing foiu- incubated eggs, and tlie other one egg(uncompleted clutch). Ten or a dozen birds were about the locality. The young in down is of various shades of fulvous-yellow, varied onthe uppei- part with brown, and with a series of square black dots downthe back, and a broad streak of the same colour on each thigli (Buller). Breeding season erratic. Sometimes in spring, as early as Augustor September ; or in autumn as late as April or May. ■%. iS^
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