THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
complaining all the time. However, they had no cause for complaint — I did 
not rob them. In each instance the eggs rested on the bare ground within a 
depression, with a considerable quantity of nesting material — dry stacks of 
grass and herbage — collected round them, arranged apparently by the sitting 
bird gathering all within reach of her while on the nest. These nests were some 
hundreds of yards apart from each other, and in no way formed a colony. 
I do not think I ever saw more than two of these birds together.” 
The type-bird described is a male, collected by the late William Stalker at 
Inkerman, North Queensland, on November I8th, 1907. 
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