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Ifah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers District, New 
South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia. ( Iiamsay .) 
EUDROMIAS AUSTRALIS, Gould. 
Australian Dotterel. 
Gould, Handhk. fids. Ansi., Vol. ii., sp. 505, p. 227. 
Mr. K. IT. Bennett has sent the following notes upon the 
nidilication of this species:—“26th April, 1889.—Pound to-day 
a nest of Eadromias australis, containing three eggs ; this is 
unusually early, for hitherto 1 have never known this bird to 
breed before September or October. The eggs were placed on a 
small natural mound of earth some four or five inches in diameter, 
and about the same height above the surrounding ground, and 
were completely covered with small dried sticks some two or 
three inches in length. I disturbed the bird from the nest on 
which she was sitting, and noticing only the sticks I at first 
thought that in consequence of the ground all round being covered 
in water to the depth of two or three inches—the result of recent 
heavy rains—that the bird in this particular instance had departed 
from the usual custom, and had constructed a kind of nest, and 
that she had not yet deposited her eggs, but on closer examination 
I found the eggs on the bare ground, and that the sticks had been 
placed carefully over them as a safeguard from the keen-eyed 
Crow, as whenever the old bird should leave her nest without 
this covering, situated as they were, they would have been very 
conspicuous, as the little mound in which they were placed was 
the only dry spot for fifty or sixty yards around.” 
In his notos Mr. Bennett also records finding another nest of 
this species with two eggs in it on the 29th April, covered in a 
similar manner with small sticks, and another on the 3rd May 
with two eggs ; in the latter instance they were not covered, but 
were simply deposited on the loose earth on high dry ground. 
Hah. New South Wales, Interior, South Australia. ( Ramsay. 
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