Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania

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Identifier: nestseggsofbirds02nort (find matches)
Title: Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: North, Alfred J. (Alfred John), 1855-1917
Subjects: Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Tasmania Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Eggs Australia Tasmania Birds -- Australia Birds -- Australia Tasmania
Publisher: Sydney : Australian Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in a gully on the southern slope of MountNelson, near Hobart, and the third on the slope of Mount Wellington, near Glenorchy. Thenests with eggs were taken on the 4th December, 1882, and the 28th December, 1886; the nestwith young was found on the 6th January, i886. I have once seen this bird feeding fouryoung ones, but regard three eggs to be the normal number for a sitting. The eggs are three or four in number, varying from oval to an ellipse in form, purewhite, the shell being close-grained, smooth, and lustreless. A set of four taken on MountWellington, near Hobart in October 1885, measures:—Length (A) 0-65 x 0-5 inches; (B) 0-65X 0-51 inches; (C) 0-63 x 0-52 inches; (D) o-66 x 0-5 inches. A set of three in Mr. G. A.Heartlands collection, received with a skin of the parent, measures:—Length (A) 0-63 x 0-5inches; (B) 0-64 x 0-52 inches; (C) 0-62 x 0-5 inches. EXPLANATION OF PLATE A. 12. Nest of Ptilotis lewini. Lewins Honey-eater. NESTS AND EGGS OP AUSTRALIAN BIRDS PLATE A. 12.
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EXPLANATION OP PLATE B, X. Figs. 1, 2. Ptilotis lewini. Lewins Honey-eater. Pigs. 3, i. MONARCHA MELANOPSIS. Black-faced Flycatcher.Fig. 5. FiLCUNCULUS fbontatus. Crested Shrike-Tit.Fig. 6. Plectorhynchus lanceolatus. Lanceolated Honey-eater.Figs. 7, 8. Artamus leucogasteb. White-rumped Wood Swallow.Figs. 9, 10. ARTAMns aleiventbis. White-vented Wood Swallow.Figs. 11, 12. Artamus melanops. Black-faced Wood Swallow.Pigs. 13. Pachycephala glaucura. Grey-tailed Thickhead.Fig. 14. Pachycephala gilberti. Gilberts Thickhead.Fig. 15. Pachycephala occidentalis. Western Thickhead. Pig- 16. Ptilotis frenata. Bridled Honey-eater. Figs. 17, 18. Aetamos sobdidus. Wood Swallow. Pig. 19. CiNCLORAMPHOS CRURALIS. Brown Siuging-Lark. Fig. 20. Cdcdlus variegatus. Pallid Cuckoo. Fig. 21. Ptilotis LKncOTis. White-eared Honey-eater. Fig. 22. Certhionyx variegatus. Pied Honey-eater. Fig. 23. Amvtis textilis. Grass-Wren.Fig. 2i. Amytis striata. Black-cheeked Grass-Wren. Pig. 25. Ptilotis flavigularis. Yellow

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