A. J. 
Data Campbell's No of 
425 
427 
No. in 
Book. 
108 
108 
108 
108 
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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
number of sets. These eggs vary considerably in their shape and size, and in the general disposition 
of the markings. In order to facilitate matters when hunting for the nests of this species, the pair of 
birds should first of all be located, and to do so requires some care and patience. They can 
afterwards be watched with much more comfort, and if building operations are going on you will soon 
notice them carrying moss ; then by carefully watching their movements you can trace them up to the 
spot. The nests are generally very picturesque in their situation, and are placed in quite a variety of 
positions, but they mostly like to build near a creek running through a well-shaded part of the scrub. 
Some I have found placed only four feet from the ground, others twelve, and again I have taken some 
at a height of over 30 feet in the Maiden’s Blush tree (Zchinocarpus australis). The most familiar note 
of the bird is, as near as I can describe it, “ give usa chew, whack, give us a chew.” Often it is repeated 
several times quickly without the wack to it, but ultimately it is brought in. (See A. J. Campbell’s 
book at foot of page 133, and top of page 134). These birds very often desert their nests if you pass 
close to where they are busy building. My first acquaintance with this fascinating Flycatcher, and also 
with their nests and eggs, was made under very favourable conditions in the scrubs near the Monkey 
Waterholes, at the foot of the mountain range below Picnic Point, near Toowoomba, Queensland, 
during October of 1883. Two nests were found, one of which contained two fresh eggs, which went 
into the collection of L. and Sid. Isles, who were also members of the Grammar School party of 
ramblers on that occasion. An average specimen of the set measures in inches = 0°96 X 0°67. 
Perfect set of 3 eggs, and are not so heavily 
blotched as the latter set, but the markings are 
more broken away from the zone at the larger 
ends. Data same as set No. 424. Specimen 
A. measures = 0°90 Xx 0°67. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken at Booyong, near Lis- 
more, N.S.W., by I. Foster, W. McEnerny, and 
Sid. W. Jackson, on the 11th of November, 
1899. The spots are more evenly distributed 
all over the shell in this set. Specimen A. 
measures in inches = 0°88 x 0°63. 
Set of 3 eggs, with markings which are 
almost infinitesimal, and is the only clutch I 
have seen so very finely spotted. ‘Taken near 
Geo. Dietz’s Cedar scrub, Don Dorrigo, Upper 
Bellinger River, New South Wales, on the 13th 
of October, 1898, by Jno. McEnerny, Frank and 
Sid. W. Jackson. The ground colour in this 
set is very white. Specimen A. measures in NEST OF THE BLACK-FACED FLYCATCHER. 
(Less than half natural size.) 
Loc., Tyringham, near Grafton, N.S.W. 
Set of 2 eggs, well marked all over. They (See data No. 424, page 75.) 
were taken from a nest in Frazer’s gully, opposite 
“Ashleigh,” Ourimbah, near Gosford, N.S.W., on the 12th of December, 1905, by Sid. W. Jackson. 
The nest was built in a small tree growing in the rocky bed of the palm and fern clad gully. I found 
that two eggs generally formed the full clutch at Ourimbah scrubs, and not three, as was nearly always 
the case in the Clarence and Richmond River districts. Specimen A. measures in inches = o'go 
x 0°68. 
inches = 0°93 x 068. 
BROWN FLYCATCHER, 
Micreca fascinans, Latham. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken on the 3oth of September, 1894, by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Ti Tree 
Creek, South Grafton, N.S.W. The nest was built at the end of a horizontal branch of a Bloodwood 
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