. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . KS. 385 out to for the nest of the Black-tailed Native Hen in October, igio. I had ^reat difiiculty intalcing this photograph, as you can imagine, in water up to niy armpits. Mr. Tom Carter wrote as follows from Bruume Hill, South-western .Australia:— TheBlack-throated (irebe {iodicipci iioi\r-]) occurred in North-western Australia, and wascommoner than Podutpa iiator. At Broome Hill it is a regular visitor, and breeds every yearon my stock tanks. The earliest date of arrival here is the i jth July, 1908, and on the
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . KS. 385 out to for the nest of the Black-tailed Native Hen in October, igio. I had ^reat difiiculty intalcing this photograph, as you can imagine, in water up to niy armpits. Mr. Tom Carter wrote as follows from Bruume Hill, South-western .Australia:— TheBlack-throated (irebe {iodicipci iioi\r-]) occurred in North-western Australia, and wascommoner than Podutpa iiator. At Broome Hill it is a regular visitor, and breeds every yearon my stock tanks. The earliest date of arrival here is the i jth July, 1908, and on the Kith.\ugust, u)o8, a pair of birds had a nest containing eggs. The October is the latestdate on which I have observed eggs in the nest. On 5th September, igio, I observed a nestcontaining eggs attached to a wire-netting fence, stretched across a stock tank, f )n the 14thSeptember I waded out to it, but found (jnly one egg, apparently deserted. On 20th Septemberthe same pair of birds had built another nest, about twenty yards further along the netting, and. NK-ST .\ND OF Til liUA rKI) CUKI^E. this contained three eggs, which hatched out on 13th October, 1910, making the period ofincubation twenty-three days. The adult birds leave the pools before the immature ones. The22nd December is the latest date on which I have seen any here. Writing from Coomooboolaroo, Duaringa, Queensland, Mr. H. G. H. Barnard remarks:— On the 3rd March, 1893, I found a nest of Podiiipes containing seven fresh have never tak-en more than four from any nest before. In New South Wales I toolc its nests and eggs in the swamp on Grafton Common,in November, 1898, and saw Mr. Thos. .\ustin take a nest of three eggs at Cobborah Station inOctober, 1910. Near Sydney it occurs in the dams of Centennial Park and ISotany WaterReserve, and in Manly and Narrabeen Lagoons. The nest is irregularly formed of a mass of various aquatic plants, is usually only afew inches
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