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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION, 
have a few tiny specks, needle-point size, at the larger ends, and specimen C. has a scattered zone of 
minute dark brown spots also at the larger end, and resembles the egg of Ptidotis ewint. This is the 
only plain clutch I have seen of these eggs. This set was also taken in Alipou Scrub, South Grafton, 
N.S.W., and was found on the 1st of November, 1893, by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson. The nest, as 
usual, was a beautiful rustic structure, composed of dead leaves, spiders’ silk cocoons, and thin vines, 
etc., and the inner part of it had two leaves of the Tamarind tree (Dif/oglottis Cunninghamii) neatly 
worked around the sides, and finally lined with thin roots. These birds confine themselves to the very 
dense parts of the scrubs, where it is almost impossible to penetrate. Their note resembles very mucb 
that of the Grey Harmonious Thrush. Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°07 x 0°73. 
LESSER RUFOUS-BREASTED THRUSH, 
Pinarolestes parvissima, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by T. Williams, near Cairns, North Queensland, on the 29th of September, 
1897. ‘The eggs are very like those of the latter species, only they are a little smaller. Specimen A. 
measures in inches = o'99 x 0°74. 
LITTLE THRUSH, 
Pinarolestes parvulus, Gould. 
One egg, which is almost devoid of markings, and is a small malformed specimen, was taken from 
the oviduct of a bird shot at Port Essington, North Australia, during October of 1896, by E. Drew. 
It only measures = 0°94 x 0°63. 
BLACK-FACED CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Graucalus melanops, Latham. 
Handsome clutch of 3 eggs, of the dark green variety, taken at ‘Ti Tree Creek, South Grafton, 
N.S.W., by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the 4th of November, 1893. The nest was placed in an 
Ironbark Eucalypt (Zucalyptus paniculata), at an altitude of 50 feet. The first eggs which I saw 
belonging to this species were taken by A. Buckley, at Bundaberg, Queensland, in the bush near our 
home in 1881. Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°25 x o-9go. 
Set of 3 eggs, of the dark yellowish-brown variety, taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Clarenza, 
South Grafton, N.S.W., on the 22nd of December, 1892. ‘The nest was placed at an elevation of over 
60 feet, in an Ironbark Eucalypt, and was exceedingly difficult to approach. Specimen A. measures 
= 1°32 X oot. 
(For want of space the following set has been placed in drawer N.) 
Handsome clutch of 3 eggs, which are of a beautiful light green. Specimen A. has a zone of bold 
blotches at the larger end, while B. and C. have them scattered more evenly over the whole surface. 
This is a splendid set, and quite different to all others we have collected or seen in any collection. The 
nest was placed in a Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca), at an altitude of 25 feet. Taken near “ Dallinga,” 
South Grafton, N.S.W., by A. Amos, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the 3oth of October, 1893 This 
set concludes this fine series of eggs of the Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike. Specimen A. measures = 
1:27 X 0°54. 
GROUND CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Fteropodocys phasianella, Gould. 
Beautiful set of 3 eggs, which very much resemble polished greenstone. Taken near Cunnamulla, 
south-west Queensland, by H. Scotney, on the 6th of October, 1897. I have never had the pleasure 
of observing this terrestrial species in its natural haunts. Specimen A. measures = 1°23 x 0°88. 
SMALL-BILLED CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Graucalus parvirostris, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by A. E. Brent at Glenorchy, Tasmania, on the 8th of October, 1899. 
Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°22 x 0°88. 
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