ghee THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. Book. Eggs. 
in the hollow. Set of 3 eggs. The nests of this beautiful parrot we often found great difficulty in 
robbing, owing to the great altitude of the hollow in which the eggs were placed, and also the awkward 
and dangerous position of it. Even with the aid of my “tree- 
climbing ladder” we sometimes experienced much trouble in Tr xy 
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getting at the eggs, having often spent the whole day at the one 
nest. When laid these eggs are pure white, but soon become 
nest-stained, and turn to a rusty color on account of resting on the 
dust and decayed wood, so commonly found in the hollows of all 
Eucalypti trees. Two eggs form the full complement for a sitting, 
three being of very rare occurrence. The illustration on page 25 
shows my brother (Frank T. A. Jackson) chopping out the nest 
which contained the set under notice (No. 173.) Specimen A. 
measures = 1'08 x 0°88. 
174 404 2 RED-COLLARED LORIKEBT, 
Trichoglossus vubritorques, V. and H. 
Taken on the Nicholson River, North-west Queensland, by 
C. Woodlands, on 31st July, 1898. Set of 2 rare eggs. 
175 465 3 SCALY-BREASTED LORIKERBT, 
Psitteuteles chlorolepidotus, Kuhl. 
Set of 3 eggs; two eggs are usually found. Taken from the 
hollow of a horizontal green limb of the Flooded Eucalypt (Zwca- 
dyptus rostrata), on the Grafton Common, Clarence River, N.S. W., 
on 23rd August, 1897. Nest was placed at an altitude of 88 feet, 
and as the accompanying photograph faithfully shows, the nest was 
in the limb just above the tomahawk which my brother is holding. 
L. Vesper will be seen on the ladder below my brother. Taken 
by L. Vesper, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson. Much chopping was 
done before the eggs were found, and it was most fortunate that 
none of them were broken by the chips of wood falling into the 
hollow. This lorikeet we found very common in the Clarence 
River district, and succeeded in taking over a dozen sets of their 
rare eggs. They soon become nest stained, and we have taken 
some quite brown. When collecting in the bush on W. Anderson’s 
estate at Caramana, near Grafton, on 3oth August, 1893, my 
brother (Frank T, A. Jackson) and I had a somewhat interesting 
experience with the robbing of a nest of this species. We saw one 
of these birds fly from a small round hole in the end of a short 
green horizontal limb of a Grey Eucalypt (Lucalyptus punctata), 
which was placed about 50 feet from the ground. On climb- 
ing up my brother chopped the end of the limb off, and then looked 
into the hollow, but could see nothing other than two bright 
objects of a phosphorescent or luminous appearance, and resembling 
eyes, which glistened down in the dark hollow. Fearing it might 
be a snake, he then burnt a piece of magnesium wire and placed 
it into the hollow, and imagine our surprise when we found these Frank T. A. Jackson up at the nest of 
two bright objects were nothing else but two young birds with the Scaly-breasted Lorikeet. 
their mouths wide open, the latter being coated inside with this asia voas Scarpa iS ap River, 
phosphorescent substance. It was our first experience of this kind, (See data No. 175.) 
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