aie THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. Book, Eggs. 
522 76 2 WHITE-BELLIED CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Graucalus hypoleucus, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by H. Barnard near Rockhampton, Queensland, on the gth of October, 1892. 
Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°07 x o°82. 
LITTLE CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Graucalus mentalts, V. and H. 
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Set of 2 eggs, which are well marked specimens, and were taken by Geo. Frisch and Sid. W. Jackson, 
at the South Pine, north of Brisbane, Q , on the 11th of September, 1885. This set has retained the 
colour wonderfully well during the twenty-two years it has been in the collection. In the Clarence 
River district of New South Wales, my brother and I found many nests of this bird, but we were always 
most unfortunate in finding the eggs on the point of hatching, and in other cases the birds left the nests 
which we found being built. I have seen this species deliberately pull the nest to pieces while the 
eggs were being “scooped” from it, and if a new nest was found one week nearly ready for eggs, it 
would be discovered on the ground under the tree next visit quite destroyed. We found every nest 
built in a Bloodwood Eucalypt (Eucalyptus corymbosa). Specimen A. measures = 1°09 x 0°80. 
524 78 I BARRED CUCKOO SHRIKE, 
Graucalus lineatus, Swainson. 
One egg, which is a small specimen, and was taken froma nest by a boy possessed of the usual 
primitive method of preserving, and was blown at the ends. The nest from which it was taken had 
been watched for several days by W. McEnerny and myself, and we were very sanguine about getting a 
clutch of eggs in it; but the itinerant school boy, quite unconscious of our find, found the nest and 
robbed it of the above rare egg, which he afterwards very kindly handed over to me. It was taken on 
the 16th of December, 1899, and the nest was built in a Sassafras tree (Doryphora sassafras), being 
placed 18 feet from the ground, in rather a conspicuous position, on a horizontal branch leaning out 
over the edge of a track or road, near J. J. Garvan’s property at St. Helena, Byron Bay, N.S.W. The 
egg is rather a small specimen, and measures = 1°11 x 0°77. We found another nest at the foot of 
Cooper’s Shoot, Byron Bay, on the 22nd of December, 1899, but it contained two young birds. This 
beautiful bird has a very remarkable, yet sweet musical note. ‘They were plentiful in the rich scrubs 
extending from Booyong to Byron Bay, and kept well out of the range of my gun, frequenting the very 
tops of the tall Booyong (7arrietia actinophylla) and other large scrub trees. However, I secured a 
fine pair of the birds, with which I was satisfied, but their eggs would have been far more acceptable. 
525 79 I CATERPILLAR CATCHER, OR JARDINE’S CAMPEPHAGA, 
Ldolitsoma tenutrostre, Jardine. Campephaga jardinit, Ruppell. 
One egg, which forms the full sitting, and is a handsome specimen, and was the /irst egg of this 
species taken in New South Wales ; however, there has been no record as faras I am aware of one 
having been found previous to this. The nest was placed in a giant Ironbark Eucalypt (Zucalyptus 
stderophlota), in a fork at the extremity of a very long horizontal branch, and it was with the greatest 
difficulty that 1 succeeded in taking the rare egg from the nest. Witha strong rope over a hundred 
and thirty feet long I was hauled up slowly, and ultimately perched at an elevation of 85 feet, 
level with the nest, and with a scoop-fitted rod 22 feet long took the egg from it, but only after a few 
hours’ patient and careful manceuvring. (See accompanying illustrations, pages 93 and 94.) The 
nest being a very flat structure, and placed such a distance away from me, was obviously most difficult 
to scoop, and the least jar of the scoop rod would have tossed the egg out. It is a beautifully marked | 
specimen, the ground colour being of a pale greenish-white, and is boldly blotched all over with dark | 
umber, and a few markings of slate. It measures in inches = 1°25 x o°85. From the time I started to 
climb up to the nest till I was again safely landed on terra firma, nearly four hours had expired, in 
the sweltering heat ; it was a difficult and very awkward climb, and unfortunately we did not have the 
“climbing ladder” with us on this important occasion. It was taken in the Ironbark forest, at the 
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