. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . al ^HIS species was one of the novelties obtained by the members of the Horn Scientific-L Expedition when in Central Australia in 1894. It may be distinguished from Aphelo-cephala pcctoralis, to which it is more nearly allied, by having the breast crossed by a narrowblack band instead of a broad band of cinnamon-brown across the chest as in that species. Mr. Keartland has forwarded me a nest and several sets of eggs of this species, receivedfrom Mr. C. E. Cowie, and the latter has kindly favoured me with the follo
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . al ^HIS species was one of the novelties obtained by the members of the Horn Scientific-L Expedition when in Central Australia in 1894. It may be distinguished from Aphelo-cephala pcctoralis, to which it is more nearly allied, by having the breast crossed by a narrowblack band instead of a broad band of cinnamon-brown across the chest as in that species. Mr. Keartland has forwarded me a nest and several sets of eggs of this species, receivedfrom Mr. C. E. Cowie, and the latter has kindly favoured me with the following notes;—Theeggs oi Xerophila nigriiinda, taken in March, 1899, were obtained from out of a big domed nestin a raspberry bush. It was composed of long dead pieces of cotton and raspberry bush, withan entrance in the side, and lined with grass and feathers of many kinds, and too large toconveniently carry on horseback. I saw the bird leave the nest. In June and July of thesame year they were nesting all about the stony plain between Erldunda and Attitara. They. SQUEAKER. SKRICOIiNIS. 2&5 favour most the Raspberry, or Dead nlianaj. One was placed in a thickcotton-bush, and another, whicii I am sending you, was in a spht rotten mulga. The generalappearance of the nest, when built in bushes, is old, unkempt, and rough, like that of Powatos-tomns ruhendus. All the nests I took during July and August, also of Xcroplula lauvpsis, which Ifound breeding at the same time, had three eggs in. The nest sent by Mr. Cowle, and taken by him from a rotten mulga, is a long cylinder inshape, with an enlarged entrance near the centre, and is constructed of fine shreds of bark,dead grasses, and debris; the nesting cavity, which is very small, is lined with feathers. Itmeasures eight inches in length by three inches and a half in breadth, the inner portion of thenest measuring three and a half inches in height by two inches and a half in diameter, andacross the en
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