a THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. Book. Eggs. 
133 52 4 GREY JUMPER, 
Struthidea cinerea, Gould. 
Taken by J. Watson, at Buckiinguy, Western New South Wales, on 12th October, 1900. These 
birds make a mud nest, like that of the Magpie Lark. Specimen A. measures = 1°17 x 0°86. 
DRONGO, 
Chibia bracteata, Gould. 
Taken by Sid. W. Jackson, at St. Helena, Byron Bay, New South Wales, on 22nd December, 
1899. Nest was built of thin twisted vines, and placed ina tree in the scrub, close to the road on 
Cooper's Shoot. The eggs are beautiful specimens. The note of this bird is very discordant. 
Specimen A. measures = 1'12 x 0°83. 
135 220 5 BABBLER, 
Pomatorhinus temporalis, V. and H. 
Taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, near South Grafton, New South Wales, on 26th August, 
1894. Nest built in a Bloodwood Eucalypt (Eucalyptus corymbosa), at the extremity of a very long 
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bough, and contained this beautiful set of 5 eggs. Specimen A. measures = 1'07 X 0°73. 
136 220 3 Taken by W. McEnerny and Frank T. A. Jackson, at Hawthorneville, South Grafton, N.S.W., on 
2nd September, 1894. Nest built ina Ti Tree (Melaleuca). I found that these birds seldom built in 
anything else in South-east Queensland. I have taken nearly every nest obtained there from the 
Melaleuca. Beautifully marked set of 3 eggs. Not only the egg, but the note of this bird is also very 
remarkable, and they often may be heard just at sun down barking away—‘ You zow, you zow, you 
zow.” We found them very common about Grafton, in the Clarence River district, and I have counted 
eight of their large dome-shaped nests in one tree, andall placed at the very extremity of long horizontal 
branches of the common bush Apple tree (Angophora subvelutina), These happy creatures appear to 
build half a dozen nests, and only lay in one of them; the remainder are used by others of their tribe 
as roosting places at night. ‘The nests are very warm inside, and the lining consists of a deep layer of 
dry bark and fur. When a lad going to school, these birds were familiarly known to the average 
schoolboy about Toowoomba and Brisbane as “ Crackabarneys,” and at Grafton, N.S.W., as the “ Dog 
Bird.” I had the pleasure of renewing my acquaintance with this species during March of this year 
(1907), when I saw both the birds and their nests on Belltrees Station, near Scone, N.S.W., and again 
listened to their notes, as several were perched in a tall River Oak (Casuarina Cunninghamiana) as I 
drove past, and their cry brought back to my mind many very pleasant recollections of my by-gone 
collecting days. Specimen A. measures = I'07 X 0°76. 
137 222 2 CHESTNUT-CROWNED BABBLER, 
Pomatorhinus ruficeps, Hartlaub. 
Taken near Dubbo, N.S.W., on 4th March, 1898. Set of 2 eggs. 
138 223 3 RED-BREASTED BABBLER, 
Pomatorhinus vubeculus, Gould. 
Taken west of Rockhampton, (Queensland, on 4th September, 1891. Beautiful set of 3 eggs. 
139 221 2 WHITH-BROWED BABBLER, 
Pomatorhinus superciliosus, V. and H. 
Taken at Wagga Wagga, N.S.W., by T. Mullins, on 29th August, 1893. Set of 2 eggs. 
14° 172 2 BRISTLE BIRD, 
Sphenuva brachyptera, Latham. 
Taken by A. Boon and Sid. W. Jackson, at Blicks River, near Tyringham, 55 miles south-west of 
Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., on 4th February, r900. Nest built in tuft of rushes, near the river. 
It was a very frail structure, and would scarcely stand removal, and was dome-shaped and composed of 
dried grasses and leaves, etc., and warmly lined inside. I have taken several sets of these rare eggs 
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