Nest
A depression in the ground, lined with strips of bark, leaves and grasses, usually at the foot of a tree or against a tuft of grass, a low bush or a boulder.
Eggs (Guide)
2, occasionally 3; white, spotted and blotched with dusky brown and deep purple; long-oval; about 32 x 24 mm. Incubation: by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 19 days. Fed by both parents.
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
punctatum (Shaw, 1794) - Coastal south-eastern Australia from Expedition and Chesterton Ranges, central-eastern Qld, along Great Divide, south and south-west to southern Vic., The Grampians, and extreme south-eastern SA.
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Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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