. Nidi e uova di uccelli australiani, compresa la distribuzione geografica della specie e le osservazioni popolari su di essa. e invece del battito sulla faccia c'è una fleshyexcressence ovale su ogni lato alla base della fattura, rosso sangue nella malee color carne nella femmina. Di comse, dopo la morte tlie coloiu* fadesout di queste parti. L'habitat del Plover di birra nera è rangesfrom Queensland round a Westirn Australia e si estende fino alla Tasmania. Due dei più importanti ornitologi si affacciano persistentemente sulla località di Tasmania asa di questa specie come noi
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. Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon . spur is absent from thewing, and instead of the wattle upon the face there is an oval fleshyexcrescence on each side at the base of the bill, blood-red in the maleand flesh-coloured in the female. Of comse, after death tlie coloiu* fadesout of these parts. The habitat of the Black-breasted Plover rangesfrom Queensland round to Westirn Australia and extends to Tasmania. Two of oiu- leading ornithologists persistently overlook Tasmania asa locality of this species as well a.s the Spur-winged Plover. But, inincluding Tasmania in the geographical range for botli those birds, Ifind I am in very good company, for Colonel Legge, in his treatise, On the Geographical Distribution of the Australian Uviicoftr, stateswith regard to the Black-breasted Plover.that it is not uncommon inthe midland districts of Tasm.ania. while of tlie Spur-winged species heremarks that it is an abundant .sjjccies in niaiiv parts of Tasm.ania.One of my early reminiscences as a boy wa.i of tlie Black-breasted Plover.. BLACK-BKEASTEU PLUVEKS NEST From a Fhuto by the Author. iESTS A.VD HGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. ;r8- About 1860, neai- Yaloke—in those days my gi-andfather JamesPinkertons pi-operty, on tlu- Wen-ibee River—tlie birds were in flocksof hundreds, and I well remember the good old gentleman pointing outto me a nest under a low shehHng rock on the plain, and, the timid bird, at oiu- approacli half rising with its back against, the roof of the stone, exposed a beautiful clutch of thickly-spotted brownish eggs. Thesebirds are not so tame now-a^davs. The next time 1 went nesting amongst these splendid little PloversI was a ga-own man. I was .stopping a day or two with Mr. ThomasMusgi-ove, farmer, on the Wliarparilla Plains, near Echuca, Victoria.There had been a good season for rain, and all tlie little crab -holeswere full of opalescent water. On the 5th August (1894)
