. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . are yellow. The flight is peculiar. When the bird is flyingthe wings move very rapidly; all the while the bird appears strugglingand making very slow progi-ess. They were first called Miners in Tas-mania* ; why I know not. Wherever you meet the birds, whether nearthe coastal scrub, in belts of timber along the river, on a plain, or in themallee, by their scolding voices they at once make their presence known,and yours too. should you happen to be stalking upon rarer g
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . are yellow. The flight is peculiar. When the bird is flyingthe wings move very rapidly; all the while the bird appears strugglingand making very slow progi-ess. They were first called Miners in Tas-mania* ; why I know not. Wherever you meet the birds, whether nearthe coastal scrub, in belts of timber along the river, on a plain, or in themallee, by their scolding voices they at once make their presence known,and yours too. should you happen to be stalking upon rarer game. How-ever common and annoving the birds mav be, the shapelv-built nest andreddish-coloured eggs are both veiT beautiful. Two eggs I took from a nest near that grand natural sight—CorraLinn, Tasmania—were slightlv larger than those generally taken inVictoria. Tliis agrees with Goiilds observations that the Miner in • The reason why these birds were first called Miners appears to have been Instin obscurity. However, I have elected to call all the Myzanihif Miners instead ofMinahs whichare totally different X/iSrS AND EGOS Ob Al SI KALIAN BIRDS. 421 Tasnuiiiia is a nioio robust bird and larger iu cvci-y respect than thesame species found on the maiuhuid. General breeding months arc from July or August to January;but it hivs been noticed iu Queensland when some of the birds builtearly, iu July or August, ouly one or a pair of eggs are laid, as againsta clutch of tluee or foui hiid when the season is more advanced andthere is a great supply of food. Yoiuig Winers have bien seen in thenest on the Pai-oo, New South Wales, as late as April; again in Maich(1898), a nest containing three eggs was noticed. Mr. Lau discovered at Warroo (Queensland), a poor soldierhanging dead, having been strangled with a long horse-hair, which thebird hatl been evidently conveying to its nest. Tins Miners nest is sometimes a reccpt;u-le for the smaller, ilesh-coloiu-ed egg of the Pallid
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