Australian Museum Journal Ornithological notes. IX. Description of the nest and eggs of Micraeca pallida, De Vis
- Shortform:
- North, 1899, Rec. Aust. Mus. 3(5): 107
- Author(s):
- North, Alfred J.
- Year published:
- 1899
- Title:
- Ornithological notes. IX. Description of the nest and eggs of Micraeca pallida, De Vis
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 5
- Start page:
- 107
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.3.1899.1149
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 17 April 1899
- Cover date:
- 17 April 1899
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 15 June 2009
- Reference number:
- 1149
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (28kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (187kb PDF)
Abstract
[Excerpt from p. 107] … The eggs are oval in form, one specimen having a pale bluish-grey ground colour, which is freckled and spotted with faint purple and purplish-brown, predominating and becoming darker as usual on the thicker end of the shell; the other is of a warm stone white ground colour, and in many places the markings which are of a light reddish-purple are confluent and intermingled with faint underlying spots of pale greyish-lilac. …