Vol. X, 

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] Stray Feathers. 299 



ever, on examination I found that the Thrush had built its nest, 

 composed of coarse pieces of bark and fibre, inside the old nest 

 of the Babbler, and that its three fresh eggs had been broken 

 by the fall. This incidentally confirms Mr. A. J. Campbell's 

 supposition in " Nests and Eggs," page 92. Although this 

 species of Shrike-Thrush is very common in this district, I have 

 so far only seen one other nest, and that was about 10 feet from 

 the ground, built in the fork of a jam-tree, and contained two 

 fresh eggs on 21st October, 1907. It is a curious coincidence 

 that the two nests should have been found on the same day of 

 the same month. 



22nd October. — Observed small young in down of Zonifer 

 tricolor. — ToM CARTER. Wensleydale, 31/10/10. 



P.S. — 7th November. — Black-and-White Fantail. — Apparently 

 the same pair of birds has now a second clutch of three eggs 

 in the nest built on the flood-gate. — T. C. 



From Magazines, &c. 



Bird's Nest in Sheep's Wool. — Mortlake, Tuesday. — 

 While a sheep was being sheared on Mr. A. Burger's farm, 

 Telanga, near Penshurst, a Starling's nest was found in the wool. 

 The nest had one Q%g in it. — Age.^ 23/11/10. 

 * * * 



Western Australian Birds. — Following some observa- 

 tions made in The Emu, vol. x., p. 58, respecting an article by 

 Mr, W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Ibis, October, 1909), Mr. Tom Carter, 

 who possesses considerable local knowledge, both ornithological 

 and geographical, has further criticised the latter at some 

 length in The Ibis for October, 1910, Referring to a supposed 

 egg of Climacteris wellsi (Grant) in Mr. A. J. Campbell's collec- 

 tion, a description is given in a footnote hereunder,* also descrip- 

 tions of the eggs of CertJdonyx occidentalis (Grant). 



Reviews. 



[" The Birds of Dumfries-shire," by Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 

 Witherby and Co., London. Price, 25s. net.] 



This handsome volume is an addition to the county avifaunas 

 with which British ornithologists are so well provided. Its author, 

 who was well equipped for his pleasant work, has been able to 

 make his "contribution to the fauna of the Solway area" of 

 permanent value by the co-operation of careful observers in 



* Egg indistinguishable from that of C. rtifa, but slightly smaller— dimensions, 

 ,92 X .74 inches. Eggs of Certhionyx occidentalis may be described as oval in form, 

 slightly glossy, light buffy-white in colour, finely spotted with dark brown or umber, 

 with dull underlying markings of grey. Not unlike eggs of Artamus sordidus. 

 Dimensions in inches :— (i) 92 x .66, (2) .9 x .66, (3) .9 x ,65.— A. J. C. 



