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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ted exteriorly with spiders web, imiJarting to thenest a greyish appearance; Uned inside with soft grass, and sometimes fineyellowish rootlets, vsdth one or two horse-hairs added, and usually situateda few feet from the ground in warm scrub, where the nest is saddled ona naked horizontal twig (with the tail-like appendage extended underneaththe twig upon which the nest is built) of a small sapling or bush, or morefrequently on a branchlet overhanging a stream. Dimensions over all,2^ inches by 1; inches in depth; not including the tail-Uke appendage,1 to H inches long; egg cavity, 11 inches across by IJ inches deep.(See illustration.) Eggs.—Clutch, two to three ; short oval in shape, prominently rovmdedat top end; textiue of shell very fine ; smiace shghtly glossy ; coloiu, lightyellowish-white, mottled and spotted, particularly about the upper quarter,with light-umber or rufous and duU-gi-ey. Dimensions in raches of aproper clutch; (I) -67 x-48, (2) -65 x-49, (3) -6 x-45. (Plate 8.)
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NESTS AND EGGS Of AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 109 Observations.—Generally described, tliis bird lias the whole of its uppersui-face dark-gi-cy; moon or crescout-shaped markings over the eyes andbehind the eai-s, throat, tips of tlie wing coverts, margin of the secondarieswhite. Shafts of the tail feathers arc also white (hence the vernacularname, White-shafted Fantail); under surface buS; eyes, bill, and feetblack; total length, 6i inches (including tail, 3:, inches). Tliis exceedingly tame and hvely little favourite is distributed overmost of the eastern part of Austraha, where it is eveiywhere met,especially in the more heavily-forested parts. The White-shafted Fantailhas closely-allied representatives in Northern Australia, Western Australia,ajid Tasmania; therefore it is again advised that the study of their res-pective habitats will greatly aid the oologist in separating the differentspecies. Quite a chapter might be written on this interesting and useful littleFantail and its beautifull

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