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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
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he flying sticks. The breeding months are chiefly from September to January.Sometimes in Queensland as early as the beginning of August; whilst inthe North-west, in March (1897), the natives brought several young onesinto the camp of the Calvert Expedition near the Fitzroy River. Tlie Magpie Lark is indeed one of the most useful of Australian birds.Dr. N. A. Cobb, the Pathologist of the Department of Agriculture of NewSouth Wales, proved that tliis bird destroys numbers of a species of laudmolluscs that are intermediat* hosts of fluke. 65-—CoLLYRiociNCLA HARMONICA, Latham.—(123)GREY SHRIKE THRUSH. Figure.—Gould : Birds of Austraha, fol., vol. ii., p 74 Reference.—Latham, Ind Orn.Supp. xli.; Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., vol. iii., p. 290. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Gould; Birds of Australia (1S48), also Hand-book, vol. i., p. 221 (1865); North; Austn. Mus, Cat., p, 80,pi. 8. egs, 2—4 (18S9) Geoyraphiral Distribution.—Queensland. New South Wales, Victoria,and South Austraha.
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iVESTS A,\D EGGS 01- .WSTRALlAiV BIRDS. 8g Xesi.—Cup-shaped, deep, constructed of strips of bark (outer); linedinside with rootlets chiefly, fine twigs and grass, and placed usually nearthe ground in a hollow stump, thick bush, or clump of foliage, or in a.niche in a bank or ledge of rock in any timbered locality. Not unfrequentlythis Shrike Tlirush builds into the deserted nest of some other species ofbird. Dimensions over all, 6 to 7 inches by 3 to 5 inches in depth; eggcavity, 3^ inches across by 1\ inches deep. Eijgii.—Clutch, usually three, sometimes four, one instance of five;roundish-oval or oval in shape; te.vture of shell fine; surface glossy;colour, beautiful pearly-white, blotched and spotted, in some instancessparingly, with ohve and duU-slatc mai-kings. Dimensions in inches of apair: (1) 1-14 X-86, (2) Mix-85: of a clutch: (1) 1-07 x-84.(2) 1-04 X-84, (3) 1-02 X-85. (Plate 6.) Observations.—The specific term harmonica was well applied byDr. Latham to this bird, and

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