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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
W. Jackson. This pigeon is without doubt the most magnificent we have in Australia, and is one of 
the largest. While at Booyong I had many opportunities of observing this fine species in its natural 
haunts, and was successful in finding two nests, each containing one rare egg. They feed chiefly on 
berries, &c., which they find abundantly in all parts of the scrubs, and when engaged feeding they often 
give their remarkable note or call, which resembles ‘‘To dolax to boo.” The egg, like those of our 
other large pigeons, which also only lay one egg for a sitting, is pure white. This egg measures 
= 1°68 X4r'07. 
LITTLE GREEN PIGEON, 
Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Wagler. 
Taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, in Alipou Scrub, South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., 
on 24th December, 1893. Nest was built on the horizontal branch of a Prickly Fig tree (Ficus 
stephanocarpa), leaning over Alipou Creek, and at a height of twelve feet. Nest was a very frail and 
flat structure, and composed of dead sticks and portions of the dried up vines of the Scrub Convolvulus 
(Ipomea palmata). Set of 3 handsome eggs. ‘This pigeon is frequently to be seen on the ground in 
the scrubs, where it appears to obtain most of itsfood. The nests are sometimes placed very low down, 
and some which we found in the scrubs at Booyong and Binna Burra, in the Richmond River district, 
in 1899, were only from four to six feet from the ground, one of them being built in the centre of a 
beautiful Birds nest Fern (Asplenium-nidus.) Two eggs usually formed the full sitting, the clutch under 
notice being the only instance in which I found three. I saw these birds first in the scrubs on Strad- 
broke Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, during January of 1885, and have since then seen them in 
almost every scrub which I visited in Queensland and New South Wales. The eggs are always of a 
beautiful rich cream colour. Specimen A. of this set measures = 1°20 x o’go. 
FLOCK PIGEON, 
Histrviophaps histrionica, Gould. 
Taken in the interior of New South Wales in February, 1889. Set of 2 eggs. 
ROSE-CROWNED FRUIT PIGEON, 
Ptilopus ewingi, Gould. 
Taken near Cairns, North Queensland, on 19th November, 1898, by W. Burton. Set of 1 egg. 
It measures = 1°20 x 0°88. 
CRESTED PIGEON, 
Ocyphaps lophotes, Temminck. 
Taken on Buckiinguy Station, New South Wales, by J. Watson, on 18th October, 1897. Set of 
2eggs. Specimen A. measures = 1°30 X 0°93. 
PHEASANT PIGEON, 
Macropygia phasianella, Temminck. 
Taken at Booyong scrubs, Richmond River district, N.S.W., on 7th November, 1899, by Sid. W. 
Jackson. The nest was built on top of that of the last season, and consequently made it appear 
unusually thick. This pigeon, I found, seemed to frequently use decayed leaves and sticks for its nest, 
and the egg cannot be seen through it from below, as is the case with most of those of the other pigeons. 
I found several nests and eggs during my stay in the latter scrubs. This bird, we found, always laid 
only one egg for a sitting. ~ It is a poor and very clumsy flier, and resorts to damp parts of the scrubs, 
and where it is very dense. The furthest south that I have observed it was in the Never Never 
country of the Bellenger River district of N.S.W., in October, 1898. They often build their nests in 
the upright forks of the scrub trees, and seldom place them exposed on the thin limbs and vines, as so 
many of the other scrub pigeons do. The egg is of a light cream colour. Set of 1 egg, which 
measures = 1°45 X 097. 
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