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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63 27 27 6-9 10-12 8-9 Lost jewellery, coin of the realm, &c., have often been recovered at bowers. It is said that any decorations of the bower by human hands is resented by the birds, the items, however beautiful, being thrown out. However, if the bones, &c., belonging to the bower be scattered, the birds will always gather them together again. It has also been stated, but I have not been able to verify it, that this Bower Bird discriminates colours, and that it will carry nothing of a bright-red nature to its play-ground. With reference to Goulds O. occlpitu/iii, Dr. Ramsay, who has examined the type, pronounces it to be only a fine-plumaged adult male of C. maculata. 163.—Chlamydera guttata, Gould.—(280) YELLOW-SPOTTED OR GUTTATED BOWER BIRD. Figure.—Gould: Birds of Australia, fol., supp., pi. 35.Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus , vi., p. 390, Geographical Distribution.—West and North-west Australia, Northern Territory, and Central Australia. Nest and Eggs.—See Appendix.
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NESTS AND ILCG^i 01- AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 203 Olisrrvatiuiis.—Gould was indebted to Mr. F. T. Gregory, the West Australian explorer, for the first specimen of this little-known species from North-west Australia. The bird is spotted, like C. nuicii/ntu, Ijul diUei-s in the guttations of the upper surface being larger in size and more distinct, the abdomen being bult, and the shafts of the primaries a ncher yellow. Subsequently, Sturt, on his trans-continental journey, met with the bird, and lately (1894) the Guttated Bower Bird was again reported in Central Australia by the Horn Scientific Expedition. A valued correspondent, Mr. Tom Carter, found a Bower Bird near the North-west Cape, which, I believe, is referable to this species. In reference to this bird's supposed playing-bower, Gould quotes from Sir George Grey's Travels. in which that author writes:—This very curious sort of nest, which was frequently found by myself and other individuals of the party, not only along the sea-shore, b

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