Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lector, after donning a pair of old pants and boots which willas readily let water out as in, to walk through the sedges of a swamp.He quickly gets lost to view in the tall ranks of thick reeds, whichhe parts with fij-st one hand and then the other, proceeding slowly.not unfrequently floimdering into a hole, and consequently finding liimselfsuddenly up to his arm-pits in the coohng water. Now and again a nestis espied, about two feet above the siu-face of the water, built on a fewupright flags, and containing two, three, or four, as the case may be, ofthe familiar gi-ejish, brown-mottled eggs. On the margins of the YaiTa, near Melbourne, some of the ReedWarblers, on account of the absence of reeds, suspend their nests in thedrooping gieen tresses of willows that hang over the river. As a rale,the Reed Warbler builds over water, but instances are known where nestshave been obsei-ed on diy land, perhaps fifty paces from water, inherba£;e, such as flowering stocks of dock-weed, &c.
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KEED WARBLERS NEST. From a Hltolo by the Aiilhai NESTS A:D EGGS OF AV ST HA LI AN BIRDS. ig:; The first eggs are usually laid about the middle of October. At theheight of the breeding season Reed Warblers appear to build their nestsvery rapidly. On the 24th November (1888), I visited a strip of sedgesin a favoiued locality and found two or three nests building. Goingthrough the same sedges cloven days suljscquently I examined no loss thanfourteen nests containing a total of tliirty-eight eggs, mostly fresh, or auaverage of 2 . per clutch. Respecting tiie Reed Warbler in a more northerly habitat, I possessMr. Herman Laus note from South Queensland. He says:—ReedWarbler—one of our best singers, in all respects like its Europeancousin—lays three eggs. Sings during incubation at all times, even duringthe night. Comes to Queensland in the latter end of August, and leaves,after rearing two broods, in Febiiiaiy. Took eggs at Tummavillo, twelvemiles south of Yaudilla, 1868. Tlie illust

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