. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . Trusteesof the Australian Museum, and from his letter accompanying the specimens I have extractedthe following information:—The males are far more shy than tiie females and youngmales. I have shot fully two dozen near Cooktown during January and February withoutany trace of the pink nape spot. The nest is a loosely built structure formed of largetwigs, some of them being nearly as thick as a lead-pencil, the inside being lined with fibresand roots. One can see through the nest from the ground and detect whether it contains eg
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . Trusteesof the Australian Museum, and from his letter accompanying the specimens I have extractedthe following information:—The males are far more shy than tiie females and youngmales. I have shot fully two dozen near Cooktown during January and February withoutany trace of the pink nape spot. The nest is a loosely built structure formed of largetwigs, some of them being nearly as thick as a lead-pencil, the inside being lined with fibresand roots. One can see through the nest from the ground and detect whether it contains eggsor not. They select a tea-tree for preference, and generally an overhanging branch with thickfoliage, but I have found them in various other trees at a height of about twelve feet from theground. Both birds are very shy during the breeding season, and always leave the nest beforeone approaches it. I usually obtain their eggs from the first week in October up to the end ofDecember, but in 1895 ^ve had rain in August and they nested then. Two eggs are sometimes. NEST AND EGGS OP EASTERN BOWER UIRD. 58 laid for a sitting; I have, however, found at different periods over two dozen nests with asingle egg in each, and nearly always incubated. The eggs received from ]Mr. Olive have the fine linear markings on the ground colourmore sparingly distributed, and intermingled with bold blotches and conspicuous irregular-shaped dashes and streaks of dark umber-brown, and similar underlying markings of dullviolet-grey:—Length (A) fSj x i-i inches; (B) i-6x roy inches. Chlamydodera cerviniYentris. FAWX-BREASTED cerviniventris, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc, , p. 201 ; iL, Bds. Austr., fol, Suppl., pi. 36 (1869).Chlamydodera cerviniventris, Gould, Handbk. BJs. Austr., Vol. I , p. 4-54 ; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. VI., p. (1881); Salvad., Orn. Pap. et Molucc, pt. II., p. G64 (1881). Adult m.\le—General colour above brown, with an ashy s
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