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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mp;c.During the season of 1898. on the Wakool, Rivcrina, there was a nestcontaining four young Magpies of the black-backed species, two of whichwere true albinos, with pink-colomed eyes. At Warroo, in South Queensland, my venerable friend Mr. Hennann Lau once found a black-backed Magpies nest containing two eggs of that bird, in addition to apair of eggs of the Great Cuckoo or Channel Bill fSri/thrnps). He alsonoted that on the Darling Dowms the Magpie usiially reared two broodsa seison, one in August, another about October. 238.—Gymnorhina leuconota. Grav.—(93)WHITE-BACKED MAGPIE. F;j?K>r.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol,, vol. ii,, pi. 47, Referenci.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. viii.,p 92 Previous Descriptions of Eggs—GovXA : Birds of Australia (1S48) ; also,Handbook, vol. i., p. 177 (1865); North: Austn. Mus. Cat, p 59(1889); Campbell: Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol vii, new ser,p. 212 (1894). Orrifiriijihiml Dixfrihution.—New South Wales, Victoria and SouthAustralia.
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NESTS AND EGGS O/- AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. ;2yj Xest.—Opcu, bowl-shaped; constructud of dead sticks and twigs,well lined inside with baj-k, wool, gfiass, sometimes she-oak (Uas^uariiiuJneedles, etc., and usually situated in the forked blanches of a tree.Dimensions over all, 14 to 18 inches by 7 inches in depth; egg cavity,G to 8 inches across by 3 to 3i inches deejj (See illustration.) There is in the Adelaide Museum a curious exhibit, a nest of thisspecies outwaidly composed of twisted and crooked pieces of sheepfencing wire. A nest taken from some melalcuca scrub near the eoiist,was composed entirely of wire-like roots, and well litted inside withstring, pieces of jute, etc. The roots were melaleuca and had evidentlybeen taken from a newly grubbed piece of giound near. Eggs.—Clutch, three to foui, occasionally five. Three types ofeggs may again be selected as the most common, all somewhatlengthened or oval in foi-m. (A) Ground colour light or palc-gixen,almost liidden with streaky and

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