Ko. in THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. Book. Eggs. 
496 353.—~C«4 YELLOW-THROATED MINER, 
Myzantha flavigula, Gould. 
Set of 4 eggs, taken by J. Watson, at Buckiinguy, Western New South Wales, on the 16th of 
September, 1897. The eggs are quite different to those of the Soldier Bird Miner. Specimen A. 
measures = I'IO X 0°72. 
497 352 2 DUSKY MINER, 
Myzantha obscura, Gould. 
Pair of eggs, taken near Freemantle, West Australia, on the 17th of July, 1888. Specimen A. 
measures = 1°07 X 0°72. 
498 35% 4 MINER OR SOLDIER BIRD, 
Myzantha garrula, Latham. 
Set of 4 eggs, taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, in Walker’s paddock, South Grafton, N.S.W., 
on the 22nd of September, 1897. The nest was built in a Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) ata height 
of only 13 feet. This is a nicely marked set. Specimen A. measures in inches = 0’98 x 0°72. 
{ 351 3 Beautifully spotted set of 3 eggs, and was taken by W. McEnerny, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, 
at Bong Bong Creek, Glen Ugie road, near Grafton, N.S.W., on the 27th of October, 1893. The nest 
| was built in a narrow-leaved Apple tree (Angophora lanceolata), and contained also an egg of the 
Pallid Cuckoo (Cuculus pallidus). It was a nest of this species that induced me, during my very early 
| ornithological days (1884), to carry a step-ladder every morning for a week, a distance of over 2 miles, 
in order to watch the progress of the building operations. I was at Jast rewarded with what I then 
imagined was a set of rare eggs. These Soldier Birds are often very troublesome to the ornithologist 
when he is patiently engaged watching the movements of some other rare species in the bush, and 
probably with a view to finding its nest. I have frequently been watching a bird for two or three hours, 
in order to try and locate its nest, when to my utmost disgust one or two Soldier Birds would suddenly 
fly up and sit on the lowermost limb above my head, and there, with their inquisitive attitude, would 
| peer down at me while pouring forth their noisy ‘‘ kar-kar-kar.” To aggravate a person still further, 
they fight with and fly after your bird, and ultimately drive it away altogether, and the net result is that 
your hours of patient work have been absolutely lost. Specimen A. of the set under notice measures 
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in inches = rol x 0°71. 
45° I PALLID CUCKOO, 
Cuculus pallidus, Latham. 
One egg, taken with the above set of 3 Miner’s eggs. It measures in inches = 0°96 x 0°68. 
500 362 3 FRIAR BIRD OR LEATHER HEAD, 
Philemon corniculatus, Latham. 
(This bird is known to the aborigines of the Clarence River district as ‘‘ Boo-go-wog-away."') 
Set of 3 eggs, which are the most elongated specimens I have yet seen of this species. Taken by 
J. Neale, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Yellow Gully, near South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W., 
on the 23rd of October, 1892. The nest was built in a Bloodwood Eucalypt (Eucalyptus corymbosa), at 
an altitude of 30 feet, and was a beautiful structure swung from a horizontal fork at the extremity of a 
long thin limb. These noisy Leather Heads like to live in the gullies of the forests near water, where 
they build their neat suspended nests in the Apple trees (4 gophora), at the ends of the branches which 
tend to droop willow-like down over the small stream of water below. ‘They seldom visit the thick 
scrubs, and the only occasion on which I observed them therein was one season in the Clarence River 
district, when the Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta) and the Bean-ball trees (Castanospermum australe) 
were profusely covered with their honey-bearing blossoms, and where they congregated in great numbers. 
Specimen A. of this interesting clutch measures in inches = 1°56 x 0°88. 
501 362 4 Set of 4 eggs, which are much shorter specimens than those of the latter set, and were taken by 
Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Shingley Flat, near South Grafton, N.S.W., on the 22nd of October, 
1893. The nest was built in a Swamp Mahogany (Zucalyptus robusta). One egg of the clutch is 
larger and more rounded and swollen at the thick end than the others, and is of a lighter ground colour, 
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