. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . V.^ 111- Willi ^^From a Photo by S. A UAKTEK KOOKEKV jtSRHEt F>om a Photo by 5. W. Jackson. NESTS A\D EGGS OF AVSTRALIAN BIRDS. 803 616.—Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, Vicillot.—(518)C. peduraliK, Du Bus. BANDED STILT. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, £ol., vol. vi., pi. 26. Keferena.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxiv., p. 324. Previous Desaipiions of Eggs.—Ramsay: Proc. Linn. Soc, , vol. vii. (1882); Campbell : Southern
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . V.^ 111- Willi ^^From a Photo by S. A UAKTEK KOOKEKV jtSRHEt F>om a Photo by 5. W. Jackson. NESTS A\D EGGS OF AVSTRALIAN BIRDS. 803 616.—Cladorhynchus leucocephalus, Vicillot.—(518)C. peduraliK, Du Bus. BANDED STILT. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, £ol., vol. vi., pi. 26. Keferena.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxiv., p. 324. Previous Desaipiions of Eggs.—Ramsay: Proc. Linn. Soc, , vol. vii. (1882); Campbell : Southern Science Record(1883), iilso Proc. Austn. Assoc, vol. v., p. 439 (1893). Geoyrai)hii<i! DiKtrihutiun.—New South Wales, Victoria, South,West, and Noi-th-west Australia, and Tasmania. Nest.—The bare ground, but sometimes there is a semblance of auesting-place lined with a few portions of dry reeds or other herbage. Effffs.—-Clutcli, foiu-; in shape inclined to pyriform ; texture of shellcompaiatively fine ; surface slightly glossy; coloiu, rich oUve-stone, oryellowish-olive, marked with spots and heavy blotches of sepia, togetherwith a few lighter smudges of mnber, especiall
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