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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from its trunk thehmb upon wliich the nest was saddled, lowering it down. It seemseasy to describe the t-ask, but the exertion expended to lower the limb,at the same time to keep the precious nest upright, made the pair of usperspire at every pore. The nest contained a pair of eggs. Never shall I forget the afternoon—that of a most delightful summerday—because it was one of the last nesting-outs I enjoyed previous toclosing my manuscripts for the piibUsliing of this book. It seems specially fitting that Rose Robins, on accoimt of the romanticinterest surrounding them, and the extraordinary beauty of their moss-made nest, should be associated with the close of my life-long work. Howappropriate, too, a frontispiece for a book on Australian birds they formmay be seen by reference to that so beautifully executed by Mi-. C. C.Brittlebank for this work. Breeding months for Rose Robins have been proved to be fromOctober to January, during which time they possibly rear more than onebrood.
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Jsfoi.) I.T-. S--li.-ll El.< Rose-breasted Robins & Nest. iVESTS AND EGGS OA AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 143 115.— Petkceca goodknovii, Vigors and Horsfield. —(IGG) RED-CAPPED ROBIN. Figure.—Gould: Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iii., pi. 5Rtfcrence.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iv., p. 171.Previous Descriftiotts 0/ Eggs.—Gould: Birds of Australia, Handbook,vol. i., p. 281 (1S65) ; North: Austn. Mus. Cat., p. 103 (1889). Geographical Distribution.—South Queensland, New South Wales,Victoria, South and West Australia. Nest.—Cup-shaped, small, and exceedingly neat; constructed of softg^ass and bark, beautifully decorated outwardly with lichens and mosses,and cosily lined inside with fur. Situated u.sually low in the uprightforked branch or elbow of a gnarled, lichen-covered limb of a tree innative pine (Cd/litri^) or other waterless scrubs. Dimensions over all,-A iudies by 2A inches in depth; egg cavity, I^, inches across by 1) inchesdeep. Effffs.—Clutch, two to three, occasi

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