The OoLOGisT. 



Vol. XXXV/. No. 5 



Albion, N. Y., May 1, 1919. 



Whole No. 982 



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OTTOMAR REINECKE'S LAST CONTRIBUTION TO "THE 



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Dromaeus N o/'cie-N alia ndie 

 'T^HIS large bird is the only one to our knowledge of wliieh 

 the eggs have below the outside dark eolor to more 

 below, a light bluish and a white color, which are shown on 

 the accompanying photograph. It took an eminent artist 

 to do this work. The photo represents the exact size of the 



The Emu is about the size of the Ostrich. According to 

 rejjorts of former travelers, it occurred abundantly in Bot- 

 any Bay and Port Jackson and also on the south coast of 

 Australia, but of recent dates it has been crowded more to 

 the interior and will be found at present on the vast plains 

 in tlie southern part of our globe and it will be only a short 

 duration when this large bird is exterminated, notwithstand- 

 ing laws for their ]:)rotection are now in existence. 



The nest of the Emu is a flat bed or flat form constructed 

 of grass and also from bark of trees and they lay from seven 

 to eight eggs, but under favorable circum.stances 18 have 

 been found in a nest, but those were probably the layers 

 of two females, and it takes not less than four weeks of 

 incubation to produce the young chicks. The eggs are of 

 a dark green-bluish color. — Ottnmar Reinecke. 



