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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
BLUE FLYCATCHER, 
Myiagra concinna, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken 30 miles inland from Burketown, North-west Queensland, by E. Drew, on the 
8th of December, 1895. The nest was built on a thin horizontal branch of a Eucalypt, near his 
camp. An egg of this clutch of rare specimens measures in inches = 0°67 x 0°52. 
BLACK AND WHITE FANTAIL, 
Rhipidura tricolor, Vieillot. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by Sid. W. Jackson at Clarenza, near Swan Creek, South Grafton, N.S.W., on 
the 16th of September, 1894. The ground colour of this set is very light, being almost pure white. 
The nest was found in a Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca). Specimen A. measures = 0°77 x 0°58, 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Swan Creek, South Grafton, Clarence River, 
N.S.W., on the 2oth of October, 1893. The nest was built in an Apple tree (Angophora subvelutina), 
and near one of the Magpie Lark (Grad/ima). These happy little birds I have found frequently build- 
ing their neat cobweb-bound nests near those of the Magpie Lark, and in Toowoomba, Queensland, it 
was nearly always the case. This clutch is of the dark ground variety, and the 3 eggs are beautifully 
zoned near the centre. In the Clarence River district we found the nests sometimes built upon small 
horizontal roots, which projected from the banks of small gullies. They often build very high, and we have 
seen some nests which were placed at an altitude of eighty feet, and in such cases it is quite impossible 
to discover them, unless the birds are observed going to and fro. During October of last season (1906), 
in company with J. W. Dawson, 1 found one nest placed over eighty feet from the ground, in a Black- 
butt Eucalypt (Zucalptus pilularis) in the bush west of Chatswood, near Sydney. This bird, which 
is also well known as the “ Wagtail or Shepherd’s Companion,” may frequently be seen dancing up and 
down the backs of cattle and horses, etc., in search of insects, such as gnats, flies, small moths, and 
other microlepidoptera, etc., and it also hops about in the grass before the very mouths of these 
animals while they are feeding, watching to capture the insects as they are hunted from their hiding places 
on the ground. ‘The note of this bird, which resembles ‘sweet pretty little creature,” I have often 
heard on calm moonlight nights ; likewise those of other diurnal birds, such as the Blue Wren, Reed 
Warbler, Forest Kingfisher, etc. The Wagtail is well known throughout Australia, owing to its very tame 
and domestic habits. One egg of the set measures in inches = 077 x 0°58. 
NORTHERN FANTAIL, 
Sauloprocta picata, Gould. 
This species is not in A. J. Campbell’s book, but is quoted in Gould’s Handbook to the Birds of 
Australia, spm. 140. This set of two eggs was taken at Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria district, North 
Queensland, on the 16th of July, 1895, by a man engaged by E. Drew. These eggs are much smaller 
and rounder than those of their southern congener (X. ¢vicolor). The markings are very minute. 
Specimen A. measures in inches = 0°67 x 0°53. 
BLACK-FACED FLYCATCHER, 
Monarcha melanopsts, Vieillot. 
Beautiful set of 3 eggs, which are heavily zoned at the larger ends, and resemble small eggs of the 
Grallina picata. The eggs in this clutch are unusually large, and boldly blotched. Taken by Arthur 
A. and P. Boon, and Sid. W. Jackson, in a scrub near Tyringham, about 55 miles south-west of 
Grafton, N.S.W., on the 23rd of October, 1898. The nest, as usual, was a magnificent structure, 
ornamented with climbing and other mosses (A/ypnum, Meteorium), which were actually alive and 
glistened with moisture as they grew around the cup-shaped nest. The inside was neatly lined with 
fine black hair-like fern roots, which could very easily be mistaken for horse-hair prior to close inspection. 
I found more of these handsome nests in the scrubs at Ourimbah, near Gosford, N.S.W., than I did 
anywhere else, and my finds there totalled up to 34 nests for season 1905, from which I took a good 
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