. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . resortedto, but also those built on trees, particularly in flooded country, and more often in thoseof the White-fronted Heron and Ra\en, which may be some twenty or thirty feet abovethe surface of the water. Sometimes the nest of the Pink-eared Duck is placed on thetop of a hollow stump, standing in or near water, and not infrei]uently in a hole in a branchof a tree, some distance feet from the entrance. In the latter position the eggs are depositedon the decaymg wood, and usually have but a slight layer of down beneath them.
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . resortedto, but also those built on trees, particularly in flooded country, and more often in thoseof the White-fronted Heron and Ra\en, which may be some twenty or thirty feet abovethe surface of the water. Sometimes the nest of the Pink-eared Duck is placed on thetop of a hollow stump, standing in or near water, and not infrei]uently in a hole in a branchof a tree, some distance feet from the entrance. In the latter position the eggs are depositedon the decaymg wood, and usually have but a slight layer of down beneath them. In Trustees of the Australian Museum received from the late Mr. K. H. Bennett severalnests of the Pink-eared L^uclc, taken by him on Yandembah Station, Lachlan District, New SouthWales. One of them is placed on the deserted nest of Cai-phibis spinicollis, built on the top ofa Polygonum bush about eighteen inches above the water. The nest of C. spinicoUis is a flatstructure, composed of thorny sticks and twigs interlaced through one another, and measures. OF IlNlv EAKKIJ DUCK, OlKNICl) ANIl E.\;lJ. 88 ANATIN,*:. eighteen inches in widtli by five inches in height. The nest of the Pink-eared Duck is elhpticalin form, and is composed entirely of dark slaty-grey down plucked from the breast of the parentbird, and measures twelve inches in width by five inches in height. To another Pink-earedDucks nest Mr. Bennett attached the following note:—Taken at ^andembah 26th August,l8Sg. Tiie nest was placed on an old disused nest of IcntraUi, built in the lower deadhoris;ontaI stems of a Polygonum bush, about a foot above the water, and was screened from viewin a great measure by the overhanging green top of the bush. The eggs were placed as now inthe nest, and were completely covered by the down. Both of these nests are here eggs are usually six to eight in number for a sitting, oval in form, of a pale creamy oryellowish-white, the shel
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