The Mountain Thrush breeds in all the localities above-mentioned during
the months of August, September and October, the nest being placed on
the low branches of the trees, often within reach of the hand; those I
saw were outwardly formed of green moss and lined with fine crooked
black fibrous roots, and were about seven inches in diameter by three
inches in depth; the eggs, which are two in number, are of a buffy white
or stone-colour, minutely freckled all over with reddish brown, about
one inch and three-eighths long by seven-eighths broad.
The sexes are alike in plumage, and may be thus described:—
The whole of the upper surface olive-brown, each feather with a
lunar-shaped mark of black at the tip; wings and tail olive-brown, the
former fringed with yellowish olive and the outer feather of the latter
tipped with white; under surface white, stained with buff on the breast
and flanks, each feather, with the exception of those of the centre of
the abdomen and the under tail-coverts, with a lunar-shaped mark of
black at the tip, narrow on the breast and abdomen and broad on the
sides and flanks; irides very dark brown; bill horn-colour, becoming
yellow on the base of the lower mandible; feet horn-colour.
The figures are of the natural size.
[Illustration:
CHLAMYDERA MACULATA: _Gould_.
_J. & E. Gould del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
]
CHLAMYDERA MACULATA, _Gould_.
Spotted Bower-bird.
_Calodera maculata_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part IV. p. 106,
and Syn. Birds of Australia, Part I.
_Chlamydera maculata_, Gould, Birds of Australia, 1837, Part I.
cancelled.
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