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Camera Craft Notes. 



[Emu 

 2nd Jul 



female almost alighted on us when my friend took one of the 

 youngsters in his hand, and the melodious call-notes of this species 

 resounded through the grove. One of the nests found was 

 suspended between the base of a white gum sapling and a bracken 

 fern, being bound to a frond of the latter ; it was of a coarse 

 native grass, with finer kind within, and lined with sheep's wool. 

 Some spider cocoons had been placed upon the outside of the 

 nest, which practice is adopted also by the White-eye {Zosterops 

 ccerulescens). This structure was nearly a foot from the ground, 

 and measured 4 inches across top over all, 2^ inches across top 

 inside ; the depth outside was 5J inches, the egg cavity being 

 2 inches deep. Another, placed in the centre of a large Lepido- 



Yellow-throated Honey-eater {Ptilotis flavigula) in tussock, just after 

 leaving nest, N. Tasmania. 



PHOTO. BY H, C. THOMPSON R.A.O.U 



sperma tussock, was of the same material as the first, but had a 

 fine wool lining to the rim, with tussock-blades interwoven, these 

 blades extending 4 feet above the nest. Measurements : — 

 3j inches across top over all, 2| inches across top inside, 3J inches 

 depth outside, 2 inches depth of cavity. A third was lined 

 almost entirely with fine grass, just a tuft or two of wool, one 

 or two spider cocoons on the outside ; two or three blades of the 

 tussock were woven into the sides. This nest was quite open 

 to the sky, except for the slight protection afforded by small gum 

 branches overhead. Measurements : — 3^ inches across top over all, 

 2| inches across top inside, 2^ inches egg cavity. The distance 

 from the ground to the top of the nest was only 9 inches. The 



