. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . \;.\sTi;i) ILViatciiick s nkst From It Iliolo by /). Le LEMON-BKKASTEI) ILVCATCl 1KKS a Photo by D. Lt Soiie/. NESTS EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 107 84.— MiCRtECA FLAVIGASTKH. Gould. — (151) LEMON-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. Figure.—Gould ; Birds of Australia, fol , vol ii., pi 94Rtference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv. p. 126 Previous Descriptions oj Eggs.—Le Souef: Proc. Roy See, Vict , vii .new ser., p. 24 (1895), also Victorian Naturali
. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . \;.\sTi;i) ILViatciiick s nkst From It Iliolo by /). Le LEMON-BKKASTEI) ILVCATCl 1KKS a Photo by D. Lt Soiie/. NESTS EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 107 84.— MiCRtECA FLAVIGASTKH. Gould. — (151) LEMON-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. Figure.—Gould ; Birds of Australia, fol , vol ii., pi 94Rtference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv. p. 126 Previous Descriptions oj Eggs.—Le Souef: Proc. Roy See, Vict , vii .new ser., p. 24 (1895), also Victorian Naturalist, fig. {1896) Geographical Diatrihutinn.■—Northeni TeiTitoi-y and North Queens-land ; also New Guinea. Xeiit.—Extremely small and neat, composed of light-coloured fibrousmaterial resembling bark, outwardly oniamented with pieces of silvery-grey bark, and placed in the dead horizontal forked branch of a forest tree,such as casuarina, (fee. Dimensions over all, li inches by 1^ uaches indepth; egg cavity IJ inches across by ^, inch deep. Tliis is the mostdiminutive of all known Australian birds nests. ^—Clutch, usually one only; oval, being more lengthened in shapethan that of th
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