SOUTHERN STONE PLOVER OR CURLEW 103 
The eggs in the photograph were found about 
ten miles from town, near the Torquay Road, on 
November 9th, 191 2. Only two eggs are laid, 
usually in the month of November, the site chosen 
being a timber paddock with a good many dead bits 
of stick lying about, near one of which the eggs are 
placed. There is no nest, and only the grass pressed 
down to the ground about the eggs to show that the 
bird has been sitting. 
The Curlew rarely flies by day, except when dis- 
turbed, when she goes off with a peculiar spasmodic 
wing-stroke. In the months of spring the Curlew 
appears to be on the wing, wailing continuously, half 
the night through. 
BUSTARD OR WILD TURKEY 
Austrotis australis australis 
In former years abundant on the great plain which 
stretches from Fyansford westward to the South 
Australian border, the splendid Bustard, to which 
our fathers gave the name Wild Turkey, is now 
practically extinct in the country about Geelong ; 
and, indeed, is rare in any part of the State, thanks 
to closer settlement, indiscriminate shooting, and the 
fox. Not once in twenty-five years have I been 
fortunate enough to see it in this neighbourhood, 
though I am glad to be able to record that within 
the past six or seven years Wild Turkey have been 
