Identifier: nestseggsofaustr01camp (find matches)
Title: Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Campbell, Archibald James, 1853-
Subjects: Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Australia
Publisher: Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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unity of watching them for more than a brief period, which,however, enabled me to observe the female return to the nest on twooccasions, and take her place upon the eggs. This she apparently doesby backing into the nest, hence her long tail sticks outward through theentrance and over her head, a conclusion forced upon me (even withoutthe necessity of eye-witnessing) from the extreme length of the tail andsize and shape of the nest. The eggs are somewhat large for the bird,and, like many other species, differ considerably in their markings.Nearly all those taken by me may be likened to the eggs of Maluruscyaneus, but somewhat smaller. The nest is much more compact thanthe Blue Wrens, smaller, and much better finished, besides being moreartfully concealed. As Gould has truly remarked, the birds powers offlight are but feeble; hence it depends mainly upon its wonderful activityupon the ground as a means of escape from danger, and the denseundergrowth foimd in the localities it frequents.
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KM I WKK.N S NEST. From a Ihoto by the Author. .\ESTS AND EGOS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 217 I have used Dr. Kamsays description of the nest, and also liavo giventhe description of a typical nest which was kindly presented to me byMr. Shepherd. The Westt^ni Port example is decidedly compact and well-built, aud most resembles that of a Tit (Acanthi:u). I have everyconfidence in Mr. Shepherds identification. I have since been in the fieldwith him, when he showed me similar nests built by Emu Wrens, one ofwhich, by the way, contained an egg of the Narrow-billed Bronze Cuckoo. Breeding montlis September and probably to the end of the year. The illustration of the Emu Wrens Nest is taken from one situatednear a bit of leptospernuuu scrub. 171.—Stipitckls KUFicEls, Campbell.RUFOUS-CROWT^ED EMU WREN. Figure— lh\s, pi. 7 (iSgg). Reference.—Victorian Naturalist, vol. xv., p. 116 (1899). Geugraphirnl Dixtrihiiiinn.—West and North-west Australia. Xest and Eggs.—Undescribed. Observations.—

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