Data 
No. 
528 
No. in 
A. J. 
Campbell’s No. of 
Eggs. 
Book. 
81 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION, 
measures = 0°73 x o'60. The nest from which I took it was again placed in a Bloodwood Eucalypt 
(Eucalyptus corymbosa), and at the extremity of a long horizontal limb, while my only chance to scoop it 
was by climbing a tall Box Eucalypt (Eucalyptus melliodova) sapling that stood not far away. This was 
accomplished with very great difficulty during teeming rain, and when I got up 50 feet, and nearly 
level with the nest, I scooped it from the other tree, ata distance of 12 feet, but not before coaxing 
the hen for nearly ten minutes to quit the nest. The climb and its attendant happenings were, I think, 
worthy of a normal and fully developed egg. It was taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the side 
of aridge at the foot of Yellow Gully, South Grafton, N.S.W., on the oth of January, 1898. In 
Victoria these birds build lower down in the trees than they 
do further north. During the season 1898 we found in the 
Clarence River district of N.S.W., in all eight nests, and 
with an egg in each. They vary considerably in their size, 
shape, and the general ground colour and disposition of the 
markings. 
PIED CATERPILLAR CATCHER, 
Lalage leucomelena, V. and H. 
Clutch of 1 egg, which forms the full sitting, and is the 
second specimen of its kind ever taken. ‘The first authenti- 
Sid. W. Jackson up at the nest of a 
Caterpillar Catcher. The nest is in the tree 
NEST AND EGG OF THE PIED CATERPILLAR CATCHER. on the right, just a little below the cross. 
(More than half of the natural size), Loc., Yellow Gully, South Grafton, 
Loc., Alipou Scrub, South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W. Clarence River, N.S.W. 
(See data No, 528.) (See data No. 527.) 
cated nest and egg of this species was found by R. D. Fitzgerald at Ballina, at the mouth of the 
Richmond River, New South Wales, on the 4th of November, 1887. This egg under notice was taken 
in Alipou Scrub, South Grafton, New South Wales, on the gth of December, 1894, by W. McEnerny, 
Jno. McEnerny, Frank and Sid. W. Jackson. The nest was built on the horizontal forked branch of a 
Rosewood tree (Dysoxylon fraserianum), near the edge of the scrub, and was placed 25 feet from the 
ground. It resembles a very small one of the Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike (Graucalus melanops), and 
measures 2} inches across, over all, and 1} inches across inside diameter, and is a very shallow structure. 
There is not sufficient room for two eggs in the nest, as the accompanying illustration clearly shows. 
The egg is of a light apple-green ground colour, being spotted and blotched all over, and more so at the 
larger end, with umber, and pale slate markings. I loaned the nest and egg to the Australian Museum 
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