oe THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell’s No. of 
No. Book. Eggs. 
banks of the Clarence River, I thought they were these Gulls, as the latter frequently came up the 
river as far as Grafton during rough weather on the coast. 
The first time I saw the rare eggs of this handsome Kite, was when I took a set myself at nine 
o'clock at night, at Swan Creek, near Grafton, during the early part of season 1897. The nest was 
placed nearly fifty feet from the ground in an Iron-bark tree (Eucalyptus sidevophloia), and as usual was 
hidden in a clump of 
foliage, and it was 
only with very great 
difficulty that I suc- 
ceeded in taking the 
eggs from it. Having 
very little spare time 
at my disposal, I was 
often obliged to go 
and rob some of my 
nests at night, and a 
walk of ten or twelve 
miles after tea was a 
mere detail, provided 
we got the eggs we 
went after. 
These birds often 
built in trees near 
water, and we found 
some nests in trees 
which stood well out THREE YOUNG BLACK-SHOULDERED KITES IN THEIR NEST. 
in the swamps. Loc., South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W. 
(See data No, 248.) 
An average speci- 
men in this set measures injinches = 1°58 x 1°25. 
249 20 3 LETTER-WINGED KITE, 
Elanus seviptus, Gould. | 
Set of 3 rare eggs, taken near Nymboida, Clarence River district, N.S.W., by W. McEnerny and | 
Sid. W. Jackson, on 29th June, 1897. We saw three or four pairs of these birds during the season | 
1897, but this is the only nest we were successful in finding. It was built in the top branches of a | 
large paper-bark Ti Tree (Melaleuca), near the side of the road which leads to Armidale from Grafton. | 
These eggs are not so richly marked as those of the Black-shouldered Kite. An average specimen of 
this set measures in inches = 1°73 x I'27. | 
250 22 3 BLACK-CHEEKED FALCON, 
Falco melanogenys, Gould. | 
Handsome clutch of 3 eggs (rare), taken near Copmanhurst, Upper Clarence River, N.S.W., by 
an aboriginal in the employ of G. Savidge, on 29th September, 1894. The eggs were laid in a basin, 
formed in the crumbling dust on the face of a perpendicular cliff of rocks, and fully a hundred feet 
from the ground. The darkie ran a great risk to both life and limb in obtaining this set of eggs ; he 
was lowered down over the ‘cliff by means of a long rope, and it was with the very greatest difficulty 
that he procured them. I found these birds also breeding on cliffs of rock at Nymboida, near Grafton, 
in 1894, but too dangerous to get at. An average specimen of this set measures in inches = 2:03 
