. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . spur is absent from thewing, and instead of the wattle upon the face there is an oval fleshyexcrescence on each side at the base of the bill, blood-red in the maleand flesh-coloured in the female. Of comse, after death tlie coloiu* fadesout of these parts. The habitat of the Black-breasted Plover rangesfrom Queensland round to Westirn Australia and extends to Tasmania. Two of oiu- leading ornithologists persistently overlook Tasmania asa locality of this species as we
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . spur is absent from thewing, and instead of the wattle upon the face there is an oval fleshyexcrescence on each side at the base of the bill, blood-red in the maleand flesh-coloured in the female. Of comse, after death tlie coloiu* fadesout of these parts. The habitat of the Black-breasted Plover rangesfrom Queensland round to Westirn Australia and extends to Tasmania. Two of oiu- leading ornithologists persistently overlook Tasmania asa locality of this species as well the Spur-winged Plover. But, inincluding Tasmania in the geographical range for botli those birds, Ifind I am in very good company, for Colonel Legge, in his treatise, On the Geographical Distribution of the Australian Uviicoftr, stateswith regard to the Black-breasted it is not uncommon inthe midland districts of while of tlie Spur-winged species heremarks that it is an abundant .sjjccies in niaiiv parts of of my early reminiscences as a boy of tlie Black-breasted BLACK-BKEASTEU PLUVEKS NEST From a Fhuto by the Author. i\ESTS HGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. ;r8- About 1860, neai- Yaloke—in those days my gi-andfather JamesPinkertons pi-operty, on tlu- Wen-ibee River—tlie birds were in flocksof hundreds, and I well remember the good old gentleman pointing outto me a nest under a low shehHng rock on the plain, and, the timid bird,at oiu- approacli half rising with its back against, the roof of the stone,exposed a beautiful clutch of thickly-spotted brownish eggs. Thesebirds are not so tame now-a^davs. The next time 1 went nesting amongst these splendid little PloversI was a ga-own man. I was .stopping a day or two with Mr. ThomasMusgi-ove, farmer, on the Wliarparilla Plains, near Echuca, had been a good season for rain, and all tlie little crab -holeswere full of opalescent water. On the 5th August (1894)
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