. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ones about seven weeks old running with him. The water is nowhnver than it has been for the past four years, hut tlie old birds would ha\e to swim for at leastthree hundred yards before they could reach the island. 1 also found the nest where the youngones had been hatched, and in addition to the broken egg shells it also contained an addled was plenty of food for them on the island. Emus are excellent swimmers ; some of themused to swim the ^^acl]uarie Iviver regularly eveiy day to feed m the paddocks on the opposi
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . ones about seven weeks old running with him. The water is nowhnver than it has been for the past four years, hut tlie old birds would ha\e to swim for at leastthree hundred yards before they could reach the island. 1 also found the nest where the youngones had been hatched, and in addition to the broken egg shells it also contained an addled was plenty of food for them on the island. Emus are excellent swimmers ; some of themused to swim the ^^acl]uarie Iviver regularly eveiy day to feed m the paddocks on the oppositeside adjoming the river. While at iUtckiinguy on the 2nd July, 1903, I had to pay a visit toanother station called Willie, and in crossing one of tlie paddocks, Willie Warrina, about fourmiles away from home, riding (juietly through a heavily timbered bit of country, 1 heard someCrows making a long cawing noise, and when nearly through I noticed a great number of them ina small dead Ijuddah-tree, or as some people call it Sandalwood or Rose-bush. I could not see. ..i)^^f;^^^;?r- »i>,. . ;J •iWe- .■rt>K^4 Mm. EMUS anything about to cause the noise, so I rode over to the place, thinking perhaps they had, orcould see, a ewe lambing, and they intended having a feast; but going along to the place 1 sawtwo very large Wedge-tailed Eagles (Unnrtiis andax) on the next tree, and I disturbed an Emuon her nest with eleven eggs; up she jumped and off down the plains as fast as she could go,the two Eagles close behind, the Crows following one of the Eagles, I should say about fortyfeet over the Emu, the other Eagle on a level with the bird. After a race of about one hundredand fifty to two hundred yards, the top Eagle made a swoop and struck the Emu just behindthe head, and tore all the skin and pulled it over her head, breaking her neck, and she struck theground very heavily, a great shower of feathers flying for six or eight yards from the place whereshe fell. I
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