. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. C. B. Frith & D. W. Frith 186 Bull. 1994 114(3). Figure 2. Schematic map of Loria's Bird of Paradise nest locations, to scale. Numbered solid circles are nests examined and open circles are older, disused, nests. Parallel lines indicate a mountain torrent, flowing from top to bottom as arrowed. Single contour line shows ridge top, and arrows indicate steep fall of forested terrain toward torrent. compacted wad intersected by the sticks. No comb-tooth fern fronds were present. On 22, 24, 28, 29, 30 December 1992 and at 1130hrs on
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. Birds. C. B. Frith & D. W. Frith 186 Bull. 1994 114(3). Figure 2. Schematic map of Loria's Bird of Paradise nest locations, to scale. Numbered solid circles are nests examined and open circles are older, disused, nests. Parallel lines indicate a mountain torrent, flowing from top to bottom as arrowed. Single contour line shows ridge top, and arrows indicate steep fall of forested terrain toward torrent. compacted wad intersected by the sticks. No comb-tooth fern fronds were present. On 22, 24, 28, 29, 30 December 1992 and at 1130hrs on 1 January 1993 a female-plumaged Loria's Bird was seen adding materials to the nest, which was empty. At 1420 h on 2 January the bird was flushed from a fresh elliptical ovate egg measuring x mm and weighing g. This slightly-glossed egg was pale pink-buff sparsely spotted and blotched all over with russet, rufous, tan-browns and purple-greys. These markings, and fine short scribblings, were more dense in a band close to and about the larger end (Fig. 3). The nest was inspected once a day until 23 January and on each occasion a female-plumaged bird was flushed or was in the immediate nest area showing concern. It was heard to give only a soft, low rasping scold note repeated 4-5 times. At 1430 hrs on the 24th the egg showed no sign of pipping. At 0900 hrs on the 25th the bird flushed off the egg, now g and with one small shell eruption at its larger end. At 1700 hrs on the 26th the bird again flushed off the pipping egg, and at 0730 on the 27th off a naked hatchling. Thus the egg hatched on the 26th day after laying, assuming it was laid sometime before 1430 hrs on 2 January. The hatchling was mid blue-grey dorsally and on its legs, eyes and forecrown; the ventral body, crown and nape were paler and a yellowish-fawn, the bill brownish-grey with a tiny white egg-tooth, the gape white, and claws conspicuously white. The nestling was found dead and cold with he
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