. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . w Dic;eunibieeding at Cape York, 1866-7, and obtained both nests and eggs. Theinteresting information is also stated that Dr. Hurst obtained a neston the Parramatta River, near Sydney, that took six weeks from thetime the nest was commenced till it was completed, and the full com-plement of three eggs laid therein. I have received the tiny bag-hke nests of the Flower Pecker, not onlyfrom Queensland but also from different parts of Victoria, notably theWirrunera and Ca
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . w Dic;eunibieeding at Cape York, 1866-7, and obtained both nests and eggs. Theinteresting information is also stated that Dr. Hurst obtained a neston the Parramatta River, near Sydney, that took six weeks from thetime the nest was commenced till it was completed, and the full com-plement of three eggs laid therein. I have received the tiny bag-hke nests of the Flower Pecker, not onlyfrom Queensland but also from different parts of Victoria, notably theWirrunera and Camberwell, near Melbourne, where a nest was foundsuspended to a branchlet of a black wattle (Acacia). (See illustrationof similar instance), while I found in the romantic Wenibee Gorge,imder interesting circumstances, a nest containing three eggs, on thePrince of Wales birthday, 9th November, 1895. In coimection witha pliotogi-apliic club camp-out we were pitching tent«, when luv attentionwas first drawn to a Flower Pecker, with exceedingly bright scarletthroat and under tail coverts that perched on a naked twig close o ~ : V- w-^ H
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