Identifier: nestseggsofaustr02camp (find matches)
Title: Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Campbell, Archibald James, 1853-
Subjects: Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Australia
Publisher: Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rvcd while residing on these islands, the task of incubation seemednnibually to bs divided by both sexes, each Iegularly relieving the otherduring the night. My introduction to tliLSe Penguins was on Philli)) Island, Oclobei,1880, where there was a small rookery on Red Point. What witltlie quaiTying for red granite and other disturbances, the birds havedeparted. A few, however, may still be found about the Nobbies atthe other, (western) end of the island. In the vicinity of our camp on the Kent Group, luimbers of LittlePenguins made the night hideous with their weird, groaning cries.One afternoon, we explored a rookery on the side of Murray Pass,the locality being an ascent from the sea of about 1 in 2 for alxnit 300or 400 yards. Between the rocks thick cro))s of the yellow-lloweringGoodenia and tus.socky grass flourished under sturdy she-oaks. HeiT-abouts we found many nooks and crevices of rock,or snug places underrank herbage (see illustration), tenanted with a Penguin sitting upon
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H •t) U z Z 3oz WH AfESTS AND EGGS UP AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. loi I a p:iir of cji^gs or downy youug. , With (.-ouaidLrable spiiit ami wilh a. fruuuse of bill and claws the birds splendidly defeudcd their oflspriug—aud,it uiay bo added, to the discomfiture of one or two of tho partywho attempted to take eggs. It was noticed how highly odo- riferous most of the uesliiig-holes were; some, judging by their strength, we calculated had been constantly occupied since tlie daysof Captain Cook. In a few instances we observed four eggs—two goodaud two addled—in one nest. Date, November, 1890. Again, three yeais aftciwards, we heard the familiar calls all nightlong, from an islet near where we lay at anchor in Franklin iSound,Fiuucaux Group. We intended to investigate the place, to ascertainif the two species (the Little and the Fairy Penguins) were there, but,putting off the chance for a more convenient time, the opportunitynever again occiuTcd. Mr. D. Le Souef, in his daring axlveuturc with

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