. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . aries black, crimped and slightly curled ; bill purplish-red, the tip pale -pink, separatedby a broad irhite band ; legs and feet leaden or blackish; iris bright brick-red. Total length in theflesh JfO inches, nung 1S--I, tail 5, bill 2S, tarsus -JS. Adult fkmalk.—Similar in plimiage to the male. Distribution.—North-western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, SouthAustralia, Western Australia, Islands of Bass Strait, Tasmania. IiJVXCEPT in the extreme northern portions, the Black Swan has been recorded from—^ ne
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . aries black, crimped and slightly curled ; bill purplish-red, the tip pale -pink, separatedby a broad irhite band ; legs and feet leaden or blackish; iris bright brick-red. Total length in theflesh JfO inches, nung 1S--I, tail 5, bill 2S, tarsus -JS. Adult fkmalk.—Similar in plimiage to the male. Distribution.—North-western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, SouthAustralia, Western Australia, Islands of Bass Strait, Tasmania. IiJVXCEPT in the extreme northern portions, the Black Swan has been recorded from—^ nearly all parts of the Australian Continent. .Mthough in Queensland Mr. |. A. Boyd has observed onlythree examples dur-ing a sixteen yearsresidence in the Her-bert River District,it may be gatheredfrom this fact that itis there of exceedinggreat rarity. So, too,is it on tlie oppositeside of the continent,Mr. Tom Carternoting it during someseasons as far northas Point Cloates inNorth-western Aus-tralia, yet it was notobtained as far northas Derby, in the large. BLACK SWAN. CM KNOWS 53 collections formed there by Mr. E. Cairn, the late Mr. T. M. Bowyer-Bower and Mr. G. Undoubtedly the southern portion of the Australian Continent and Tasmaniais its stronf^hold, over which it is generally distributed. listuarine areas, bays, inlets andbrackish marshes of the coast are alike tenanted by it, as are the reed-beds, lagoons, swamps,ri\ers, lakes and flooded country inland. Although unquestionably decreased in numbers since theearly days of settlement, it still inhabits the neighbourhood of Sydney, and flocks may be seen in thewestern suburbs just about dusk, or on bright moonlight nights, as they pass over from onefeeding ground to another. It was at one time common, too, near Melbourne, and I have seenspecimens obtained in Hobson Bay, but since the drainage of the low-lying lands around thecity, it has disappeared from these haunts. Probably, too, it is far less plent
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