. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ales. It is said to be at alltimes difficult to procure, but that some birds fall victims to the fowlers gun is evinced bythe fact of it being for sale in the poulterers shops in Sydney from time to thus obtained for this museum, I have learned, were mostly procured on the northernrivers of the State, principally from the Clarence River. According to Mr. Allan Hume, in his work on the Nests and I^ggs of Indian Birds, theBlack-necked Stork possesses many of the attributes of the Australian Crane or Na
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ales. It is said to be at alltimes difficult to procure, but that some birds fall victims to the fowlers gun is evinced bythe fact of it being for sale in the poulterers shops in Sydney from time to thus obtained for this museum, I have learned, were mostly procured on the northernrivers of the State, principally from the Clarence River. According to Mr. Allan Hume, in his work on the Nests and I^ggs of Indian Birds, theBlack-necked Stork possesses many of the attributes of the Australian Crane or NativeCompanion (Gnis anstialasianus), as may be gathered from the following notes in reference tothis species :— These birds have a most remarkable method of paying delicate attentions toone another, or it may be merely of dancing. A pair will gravely stalk up to each other, andwhen about a yard or two feet apart, will stand face to face, extend their long black and whitewings, and while they flutter these very rapidly, so that the points of the wings of one flap. i;la(k-nE(kkd stork. XENORHYNCHUS. 49 against the points of the others wings, advance their iieads till they nearly meet, and bothsimiUtaneousiy clatter their bills like a couple of watchmens rattles. This display lasts fornearly a minute, after which one walks a little apart, to be followed after a moment by the other,when they repeat the amusement, and so on perhaps for a dozen times. . Watching themclosely through the glasses from little more than one hundred yards, I discovered that theynever actually touched each other, and after a dozen or more such flutterings they all rose andHew quietly away. Dr. W. Macgillivray sends me the following notes relative to the Cloncurry District,North-eastern Queensland :—Thejabiru (Xciiorliyiiclins nsialicnsj is an occasional visitant tovarious parts of the district. It is always a very wary bird, and keeps to fairly open situationson a waterhole, where it can have a good vie
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