. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . I visited this island in company with Mr. McLennana month later, 3rd November, 1910, when we found them still nesting, the two eggs whichusually go to form a clutch being placed on a bedding of tine rock chippings in some convenienthollow or depression on the bare rock. Several nests contained only one egK, and there were afew young birds. Most of the nests were placed just above hifjli water mark, at a higher levelSleiiia aiiiFstlida was nesting, and on the top of the island i. i^rdcilis. Mr. Allan K. McCulloch, who spent so
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . I visited this island in company with Mr. McLennana month later, 3rd November, 1910, when we found them still nesting, the two eggs whichusually go to form a clutch being placed on a bedding of tine rock chippings in some convenienthollow or depression on the bare rock. Several nests contained only one egK, and there were afew young birds. Most of the nests were placed just above hifjli water mark, at a higher levelSleiiia aiiiFstlida was nesting, and on the top of the island i. i^rdcilis. Mr. Allan K. McCulloch, who spent some hours on an island near Cape York-, NorthernQueensland, on the i ith ()ctober, 1907, and collected adults and youn;; oi Stfiiia iiu-hiinuulu-Ji,has handed me the following notes relative to them:—Having been unable to get any sea-birds nesting on Murray Island, Torres Strait, during our stay there, Mr. Jardine and I, whenat Cape Yoric, took the din^^hy on ()ctober nth over to a small rock-y island to the north-east of .Albany Island, it being one Ijij^^gW w. YOUNG llLArK-N.\I»KI) IX THK DOWN. of the group of that arri\ed at a bank ofclean white coral clinker,at which spot there ap-peared to be more sea-birdsthan elsewhere, but we hadsmall chance of observingthem, they being muchwilder than those I sawunder similar conditions atLord Howe Island. Theyare more often disturbed,especially by the pearlersand beche-de-mer fisher-men, who go ashore inbodies and smash everyegg they can find, to ensurethem getting none but freshones when they again land in a couple of days time. Then again the natives of the numerousislands in the Straits never fail to make journeys to the nearest sand-hank during the egg-layingseason to lay in supplies of eggs and young birds. Landing on the clinker bank, we were not a little disgusted to find it was a littleearly in the season for eggs. Our first find was a pair of Black-naped Terns eggs (Sterna;;;(7(;;iiTH(7;(V/j placed in a very
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