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Cade
1958
Motacilla flava
25-24 June Coal Mine- Meade River- How 6 seen
in the immediate vicinity of the ARL
warnigan. Brock shot one for a specimen.
More seen anywhere else in the environs
we have traversed.
28 June
30 June
One or two still around the ARL warnigan.
I found a nest today about 1 mile
below the willoge on the left limit of
the river. 4 eggs, greyish with a
light suffusion of brownish. The 7
flushed off weight under my foot and
then kept circling around over the sea
25-30 ft above me and chitting. Finally
she was joined by mate. The nest was
situated on the side of a ditch ca 3 ft
depth in a depression under a mound of
moss and was partially covered over
by a spray of Carex spp. The
outer shell of the nest was made of ridge
and gross (dried) stems and the inside
was lined with Caribbean leaves. The
position of the nest was on top of a high
sandy bluff about 15 yds away from the
brink in tummock-bath-dwarf shrub
complex. Parent birds were much excited by
our presence, I was again on nest when
we returned an hour or so later.