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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
BLACK-THROATED FLY EATER, 
Pseudogerygonz personata, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken at Cape York, North Queensland, by H. Barnard, during November of 1896. 
(See A. J. Campbell’s book, page 163.) An egg of this rare set measures = 0°72 X 0°45. 
SOUTHERN FLY EATER, 
Pseudogerygone culicivora, Gould. 
One egg, which was taken near Albany, in Western Australia, during October of 1889, by A. J. 
Campbell. It measures = 0°65 x 0°45. 
LARGE-BILLED FLY EATER, 
Pseudogerygone magnirostris, Gould. 
Two eggs, taken by E. Drew, on the Mangrove belts near the mouth o. the Nicholson River, 
North-west Queensland, on the 1st of January, 1895. 
During September of 1887 I founda Fly Eater’s nest 
built ina Mangrove tree (Avicennia officinalis), which 
stood in the open waters of Moreton Bay, Queensland, 
and from it I took an egg of the Bronze Cuckoo, 
which specimen is now in this collection. (See data 
No. 103.) Specimen A. measures = 0°67 x 0’50. 
BROWN FLY EBATER, 
Pseudogerygone fusca, Gould. 
Very large clutch of 5 eggs; 3 are usually found. 
It was taken at Binna Burra scrubs, about 18 miles 
north-east of Lismore, Richmond River district, New 
South Wales, on the 3rd of November, 1899. The 
nest is a beautiful structure, and was suspended from 
the extremity of a Lawyer Vine (Calamus australis.) 
See accompanying photograph. ‘There is no scrub at 
Binna Burra now (1907), the rapid and marvellous 
growth of the dairying industry having necessitated the 
cutting away of many miles of rich tropical growth, 
both here and on other rivers of north-eastern New 
South Wales. The beautiful Don Dorrigo lands, ot 
the Upper Bellinger River district, are now being 
selected and put under cultivation, and all the valuable 
timbers being destroyed. It was in this Don Dorrigo 
scrub that we found the Atrichia’s nest and eggs, as well Soest at GOW A EE ane 
as other species, during October of 1398. Taken by W, (More than half natural size) 
McEnerny and Sid. W. Jackson. The nest of this Loc., Binna Burra Scrubs, Richmond River. 
bird is a very beautiful dome-shaped structure, com- (See data No, 414.) 
posed of fine roots and long threads of a green tree- 
climbing moss (/Zypnum), and is decorated with the white silk-like webs and cocoons of spiders, and 
frequently quite a quantity of lichen is fastened to it. The bird lives in the rich dense scrubs, ana I 
have never met with one in the forest or open bush. Its note is quite different to that of the White- 
throated Fly Eater, and is a feeble little twitter which resembles—“ two tid ed ed, two tid ed ed, two 
tid ed ed,” and is uttered rapidly, the ¢id ed ed being of a higher tone than the first note, Specimen A. 
of this set measures in inches = 0°63 xX 0'47- 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by Sid. W. Jackson in the scrub at Bumble Creek, Ourimbah, near Gosford, 
a 
N.S.W., on the 15th of October, 1904. The nest was suspended from a branch of the large-leaved 
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