. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . laid horizontally across average thirteen inches in length, the inner cup-likecavity four inches in diameter by one inch and three-quarters in depth. Another nest found byhim on the 13th January, 1897, and figured above, was built at the junction of three thinbranches of what is locally known as the Water Fig (Ficus aspera), and partially held in positionby several leafy twigs. Exteriorly it is roughly and irregularly formed of long twigs; the inside,which is deep saucer-shape, being neatly lined with fine short twigs. In out
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . laid horizontally across average thirteen inches in length, the inner cup-likecavity four inches in diameter by one inch and three-quarters in depth. Another nest found byhim on the 13th January, 1897, and figured above, was built at the junction of three thinbranches of what is locally known as the Water Fig (Ficus aspera), and partially held in positionby several leafy twigs. Exteriorly it is roughly and irregularly formed of long twigs; the inside,which is deep saucer-shape, being neatly lined with fine short twigs. In outward measure-ments it averages eight inches in diameter, although a few of the long twigs first laid as afoundation measure nearly twelve inches. Across the top of the deep saucer-like cavity itaverages four inches and three-quarters by a depth of one inch and a half. The female, afterbeing twice flushed from the nest, which contained two fresh eggs, was shot and forwardedwith the nest and eggs to the Trustees of the Australian Museum. I found a similar structure. NEST .\ND EGGS OF REGENT BOWER-BIRD. 64 PTILOSORHYNCHID^. on the gth November, igoi, at Ourimbah. It was built in a drooping branch of a largeMaidens Blush, (Sloanea aiistralisj, growing on the bank of a creek, and was about twentyfeet from the ground. The eggs are usually two, sometimes three, in number for a sitting, and are oval, elongate-oval, or rounded-oval in form, the shell being close-grained, and its surface smooth andlustrous. In ground colour they vary from a yellowish-stone colour to a faint greyish ordull white. Of a set of three, lent by Mr. Elvery, two are typical ovals, the other is nearlyan ellipse in form. All are of a pale yellowish-stone ground colour, with long irregularlines, ill-shaped figures, loops, and scrolls of light-umber-brown, encircling the shell, and fairlyevenly distributed, with similar but less numerous underlying and clouded markings of dullviolet-grey; some of the lines are broad
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