. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . resident at the Herbert River, who informed me that it is a common speciesin that neighbourhood. With but few exceptions, all the nests of this species found by Mr. Boyd were built inlow trees overhanging a river or the bed of a creek. Early on the morning of the 25th ofNovember, 1892, Mr. Boyd was successful in capturing a female sitting on her two eggs,and also on one of a Bronze Cuckoo. The nest was built in a Shaddock-tree in the garden,this being the first occasion on which he had ever found the nest not overhanging a ba
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . resident at the Herbert River, who informed me that it is a common speciesin that neighbourhood. With but few exceptions, all the nests of this species found by Mr. Boyd were built inlow trees overhanging a river or the bed of a creek. Early on the morning of the 25th ofNovember, 1892, Mr. Boyd was successful in capturing a female sitting on her two eggs,and also on one of a Bronze Cuckoo. The nest was built in a Shaddock-tree in the garden,this being the first occasion on which he had ever found the nest not overhanging a bank orstream. Subsequently Mr. Boyd obtained a nest with two fresh eggs on the gth of December,and another on the 17th with three fresh eggs in it. * Rep. Voy. H Alert, p. 13 (1883). t Proc. Linn. Soc. , Vol. i., p. 52 (1876). ; Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. iv., p. 224 (1879). EXPLANATION OF PLATE A. 2. Nest and eggs of Ebythbodbyas Robin. NESTS AKD EGGS OF AUSTKALIAN BUIDS. PLATE A. ■>. \: 4* ^ ^■ *5^^:*:^fe .*«-«t\<^.«* EXPLANATION OF PLATE A. 3. Nest of EopsALTniA Itobin. NESTS AND EGGS OF AUSTBALIAN BIRDS. PLATE A-3.
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