. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . re Salvadoris type specimen (a male)was obtained. 110.— Petroeca leggii, Shaiise.—(1G5)SCARLET-BREASTED ROBIN. Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. vol. iv., p. 165. Previous Descriptions 0/ Eggs.—Gould; Birds of Australia (1848), also Handbook, vol. i., p. 280 (1865); North: Austn. Mus. Cat.,p. 102 (1889). Geographical Distribution.—South Queensland, New South Wales,Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Nest.—Cup-shaped, neat and beautiful; constructed of soft bark,c
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . re Salvadoris type specimen (a male)was obtained. 110.— Petroeca leggii, Shaiise.—(1G5)SCARLET-BREASTED ROBIN. Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. vol. iv., p. 165. Previous Descriptions 0/ Eggs.—Gould; Birds of Australia (1848), also Handbook, vol. i., p. 280 (1865); North: Austn. Mus. Cat.,p. 102 (1889). Geographical Distribution.—South Queensland, New South Wales,Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Nest.—Cup-shaped, neat and beautiful; constructed of soft bark,covered with pieces of outer bark sttick on by spiders web so as to resemblethe limb on wliich the nest is placed; lined inside with fine inner barkand finished warmly with fiu\, sometimes a feather or two in situated in the strong, upright, forked branch of a sapling orsmall tree in a retired locality- in oiDen forest. Occasionally the nest isplaced in the hollow part of a tree tnink. Dimensions over all, 3 inchesby 3 inches in depth; egg cavity, li inches across by 1| inches deep. ►^^/•fv. SCARLET-BREASTED ROBINS NESTFrom a Ihoto by the Author. .VESTS AND EGGS Of AUSTRALIAN BIKDS. 135 ■^.W-—Clutch, three to four; roundish in sliape, but more pointedat one end; tcxtiUc of sliell fine; surface sUghtly glossy; coloui, lightgreenisli-wliite, much spotted and speckled, especially round the upperquarter, with uniber and dull-grey. Dimensions in inches of a properclutch: (1) -72 X -58, (2) -72 x -58, (3) -71 x -56. (Plate «.) Observations.—This lovely-featliered forest gem is a great favouritewith collectors, and is fairly distributed from South Queensland round toSouth Australia, its place being Uiken in Western Australia by an alliedspecies, P. campbelli (Shaipe). The dress of the Scarlet-breasted Robin is—upper surface, includingthroat and lieatl, black, excepting conspicuous patch of white on forekeati,and longitudinal white bauds on the
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