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utters at intervals during the night and at daybreak. Food: seeds of 
grasses and other plants, and insects of various kinds. 
Nest . — A depression in the ground, lined with dried grasses, and 
sheltered by a tuft of grass or herbage. 
Eggs . — Usually four, pale brown, more or less covered with dots, 
spots, and small irregular-shaped markings of blackish-brown. Breeding- 
season : in eastern Australia from September to March. 
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