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Mar 25th. Go along to the nest found a couple of days ago, 
Goannas had raided it yesterday, shells of three eggs 
lying near it. 
Passing through a short grass area near where & had often 
previously seen the birds a female flushed and landed a 
few yds away, search, no nest, 
Mar 26th. I had sent Tommy out to camp a couple of days 
previous, telling himm to look for nest of the bird I had 
flushed on the 25th. When I reached camp Bommy told me he & 
had found the nest, it contained 4 esgs. 
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Mar 29th Go along to have a look at the nest that Tommy 
found. This nest was in a short grass pocket, about 100 
Yds from where I flushed the bird on the 25th, Tommy flushed 
the bird about 70 yds from it. Shape ovoid, placed at the ~ 
base of a xmmg stool of long grass amongst short fine grass 
and almost completely screened by a small crceping plant. 
Quite a plain track leading to the nest through the short 
grass, noticeable for a distance of three fect. 
Composed of fine dry grass, a few small eucalyptus leaves 
and a small splinter of wood in the egg chamber. 
Measurements, outwardly from entrance ta rear,6 in. Depth 
and width 5 in. Ginside length 5 in. width 33 in. depth 3 in. 
Entrance, width 3 in. depth 2 in, Depression in ground # in. 
Flush a female about 20 yds from where Tommy flushed her, 
later on flush her a few yds away from same spot. 
Afternoon, flush the female from the same spot again. 
Tommy found an old nest from which the young had hatched, 
about 70 yds away from where the bird flushed. ; 
Mar 30th. Flush the female again a few feét from where she 
twice flushed yesterday. 
Mar 31 Flush the female again a few. feet from the usual 
spot. Search the whole area again for a hundred yds around. 
Marj! Female flushed. Afternoon heard calling could not 2k 
flush her, 
April 13th. Heard a female calling about 150 yds from where 
I got nest Mar 24th, flush female from short grass pocket, 
April 14th Go along and search the area, found a nest that 
a Goanna had raided, 20 feet from where thw bird flushed 
yesterday. 
April 14th. Flush five small Purnix, probably all males, in 
a locality where I had not previously noted them. Could not 
flush any of them:a second time, 
May 14th. Morning, flush two females and a male. Afternoon 
flush a female near the same spot, she flew, off behind me, 
twist round in the saddle ana try a snapshot, miss, horse 
nearly jumped from under me, 
