. Birds of the water, wood & waste . le nest, very neatly built in season alone we got four, McLeandiscovering one in late September (29th),and another in early October (1st). Imyself got two nests on the one day inDecember. McLeans, no doubt, was theearly brood, and mine the late. The nest is planted deep—buried—a footor fifteen inches in the heart of a bunchof cutty grass, and usually a clump isselected, growing in a soft, wet spot, theFern Bird, like the Pukeko, relying onthese extra safeguards to fend off verminand trampling stock. Fern Birds nests canbe discovered most easily o
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . le nest, very neatly built in season alone we got four, McLeandiscovering one in late September (29th),and another in early October (1st). Imyself got two nests on the one day inDecember. McLeans, no doubt, was theearly brood, and mine the late. The nest is planted deep—buried—a footor fifteen inches in the heart of a bunchof cutty grass, and usually a clump isselected, growing in a soft, wet spot, theFern Bird, like the Pukeko, relying onthese extra safeguards to fend off verminand trampling stock. Fern Birds nests canbe discovered most easily on horseback,owing to the extra view, and by continuousriding through these half-dry swamps, speci-mens are sure to be put up. If when abird is flushed it flies off horizontally, probablyit has been merely disturbed at feeding orresting, or gathering nest materials. If,however, the bird pops straight up out ofthe centre of a clump, the nest, afterpatient peering, will usually be found deepset among the saw-toothed blades. In form. Male and Female Fern-bird bv Ncsi
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