Vol. VIII. 



1909 



J Stray Feathers. I5I 



I took an egg of Mesocalius palliolatus from the nest of 

 AcantJiiza pyrrhopygia. The nest was situated in a thick green 

 bush, about 18 inches from the ground, and was only discovered 

 by seeing the bird flush. The nest did not contain any eggs of 

 the Tit, so I left it for several days before taking the Cuckoo's 

 egg, which was then partly incubated. — P. T. Sandland. Balah, 

 via Kooringa (S.A.), 30/10/08, 



Malurus Fighting its Shadow. — Referring to the note 

 with this heading in TJie Emu, vol. viii., part 2, the following note 

 of mine dated 28th July, 1893, may be of interest. The birds were 

 Malurus cyaneus, the locality Adelaide : — Hearing some taps 

 at my window, I looked up and saw a male and female Malurus 

 flying at it. At first I thought they were trying to catch a small 

 sort of fly on the other side of the glass, but as they continued 

 doing this for about a week, off and on, I think the male must 

 have been trying to attack his image in the glass, especially as 

 the small flies could not always be seen at the spot to which he 

 flew, and when he changed his position in the twigs of a tree in 

 front of the window he usually flew to a different spot. But 

 against this was the fact that he always flew up about 9 inches 

 instead of horizontally forward. The female usually sits on a 

 twig watching him, and very rarely flies to the window. On 

 one occasion I opened the window at top and bottom. Twenty- 

 eight times the male flew on to the top of it, looked into the 

 room, and then hopped back to his mate, while the hen only did 

 it twice. Each seemed frightened to go in without the other. 

 At last the male flew in below and at a looking-glass placed on 

 the window-sill. Then, flying up, he flew on to the inside of the 

 window, and, dashing against the pane, had to be caught and 

 placed outside.— (Dr.) J. BuRTON Cleland. Perth, W.A. 



P:mus and Brush-Turkeys in England.— It has been 

 suggested to me that the notes which follow will be of interest to 

 Australians. My uncle. Sir Edmund Loder, of Leonardslee, 

 Horsham, Sussex, England, has upon his estate a reserve of some 

 300 acres of forest, securely fenced, in which he has endeavoured 

 to acclimatize numerous animals and birds brought by him from 

 various parts of the world. Beavers, capibara, &c., exist to- 

 gether with kangaroo and Emu. The. Emus have successfully 

 reared more than one brood of chicks, which when old enough 

 are eagerly sought by zoological societies in England. The 

 male Emu does all the sitting, and the female was so careless or 

 aggressive during incubation that it was found expedient to shut 

 her up away from her mate and her progeny. 



A pair of Brush-Turkeys {Catheturus) are in the park also, 



