Data 
No. 
No. in 
A.J. 
Campbell’s No. of 
Book. Eggs. 
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L452 I 
83 1 
105 2 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION 
Eucalypt (Zucalyptus corymbosa), at an altitude of 46 feet. It was very small, and only measured one 
inch and a half across. This Flycatcher, which is also well known to Australians as the “ Jacky Winter ” 
or “Stumper,” is certainly one of the most plainly coloured of our native birds, and by the casual observer 
is passed almost unnoticed. Most of the Flycatchers leave us and go north during the cold months, 
but Jacky Winter stays behind and keeps us company, and hence the name. During the winter, when 
most of the other birds are dull, his clear sweet—‘ tweet-tweet-tweet, twitter-twitter-twitter,” may be 
heard incessantly all through the day, though in the mornings he is at his best. Before sunrise, and ere 
many of us have left our beds, he gives us the whole repertoire of his songs ; besides, he is for ever on 
the move, positively displaying a spirit of the utmost happiness and contentment. During breeding 
season, and when the hen bird is sitting on her tiny nest, which has been securely fastened with cob- 
webs into the fork of a thin horizontal limb, he seats himself on the very pinnacle of the tallest dead 
branch of the tree, fanning his tail from side to side, and singing away as if all the world had ears 
turned towards him ; then he suddenly flies down after some small insect, and quite fearlessly brings 
his little pallid body within a few feet of your face.  Snip-snap his little bill goes, and on capturing his 
dainty morsel he returns to his elevated seat, and repeats his song. We find him everywhere ; in the 
wild and most solitary parts of the bush, in the country town, or around the cottage and the farm yard, 
and he is even to be heard frequently twittering away in the tall trees of the large parks and gardens of 
Sydney. He loves company, and therefore likes to dwell near habitation if possible. The nest is the 
smallest made by any of the Australian birds. 
Specimen A. measures = 0°73 x 0°55. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken in the bush at Rose- 
ville, near Sydney, by J. W. Dawson and 
Sid. W. Jackson, on the 23rd of November, 
1906. The nest was built on a dead branch 
of a Peach tree, which stood beside a 
Christmas Bush ( Ceratopetalum gummiferum), 
near a narrow creek, and was situated only 
Io feet from the ground. (See accompanying 
photograph.) Specimen A. measures = 
O-7n x 053. 
SQUARE-TAILED CUCKOO, 
Cacomantis variolosus, Horsfield. 
Taken with the latter set of Brown Fly- 
catchers’ eggs. Data ditto. This Cuckoo's 
egg measures = 0°74 X 0°55. 
LESSER BROWN FLYCATCHER, 
Micreca assimilis, Gouid. 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE BROWN FLYCATCHER, AND 
ALSO AN EGG OF THE SQUARE-TAILED CUCKOO. 
One egg only, which was taken from a 
nest near Broome, North-west Australia, by (altioabrntneet nick 
(Almost natural size. 
F. J. Buttler, during the first week of Sep- Loc., Roseville, near Sydney. 
tember, 1898. It measures in inches = 0°70 (See data No. 430.) 
X 0°52. 
SPECTACLED FLYCATCHER, 
Monarcha gouldi, Gray. 
Beautiful set of 2 eggs, taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, in Alipou Scrub, South Grafton, 
Clarence River, N.S.W., on the 31st of December, 1893. The nest, which is shown in the accompany- 
ing photograph on page 78, was composed of green moss, the outside of which was decorated with the 
green and white cocoons, or egg:bags, of spiders, and was lined inside with black hair-like roots, similar 
to those used in the nests of Monarcha melanopsis. It was placed in the fork of a small shrub, four 
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