A. J. 
Data Campbell’s No. of 
No. in 
No. Book. Eggs. 
201 577 4 
202 575 4 
203 574 3 
204 574 3 
405 574 4 
206 579 6 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
sticks and dead leaves, and are easily overlooked and passed by, as they harmonize so much with the 
general surroundings on the ground. ‘They are placed ina variety of situations—some at the foot of 
trees, and very neatly concealed between the buttresses at the roots, or up against an old log or under 
a fern, and many found during our visit to the Don Dorrigo scrubs of N.S.W., in October, 1898, were 
placed in masses of a flat green ribbon-like grass or sedge (Gahnia sp.), which was very plentiful near 
the creeks and damp parts of the scrub. The birds are always on the ground, and they make a great 
noise when busy scratching the masses of leaves in quest of food, and to hear one thus engaged a person 
would imagine it was a Scrub Turkey at work, and not this small quail-like Orthonyx. As soon asa 
person enters a scrub these birds give their shrill and very loud alarm-like notes, and the whole scrub 
re-echoes with the noise, and no other birds can be heard. ‘Two eggs always formed the sitting, and in 
shape they varied from elliptical to elongated ovals.. Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°16 x 1°80, 
Specimen B. measures = 1°13 X 0°80. 
Drawer FE. 
RED-NECKED RAIL, 
Rallina tricolor, Gray. 
Taken by C. Woodlands, on the bank of the Nicholson River, Queensland, on r1th November, 
1896. Set of 4 eggs. Specimen A. measures = 1°54 x 1°18. 
PECTORAL RAIL, 
LHypotenidia philippinensis, Linnzus. 
Taken at Pearce’s Creek, Booyong, Richmond River, N.S.W., on gth November, 1899, by Sid. 
W. Jackson. Set of 4 eggs. This bird often lays as many as seven eggs. Specimen A. measures = 
I'44 xX 1°08. 
SLATE-BREASTED RAIL, 
Hypotenidia brachypus, Swainson. 
Taken at Alipou Creek, South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., by Sid. W. Jackson, on 31st July, 
1892. Set of 3 eggs. We found these birds and their eggs very rare in the latter locality. 
Taken by M. W. Harrison, at Risdon, near Hobart, Tasmania, on 17th October, 1897. Set of 3 
eggs. 
Taken by M. W. Harrison, at Risdon, Tasmania, on 6th October, 1900, This is a beautifully 
blotched clutch, and is much more heavily marked than the two former sets. Set of 4 eggs. Specimen 
A. measures = 1°37 x 1'06. 
SPOTTED CRAKE, 
Porzana fluminea, Gould. 
This beautiful clutch of six rare eggs was taken from the reeds in a swamp near Hobart, Tasmania, 
by M. W. Harrison, on 19th November, 1898. This is the only set I have ever seen. Specimen A. 
measures = 1°28 xX 0'94. 
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