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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
was composed of moss, and built upon ferns growing on the side of a scrub tree. The cross in the 
photograph shows the position of the nest among the luxuriant growth of ferns, etc., on the trunk of 
the tree. Specimen A. measures = 1'21 x 0°88. 
LARGE-BILLED GROUND THRUSH, 
Geocichla macrorhyncha, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by M. W. Harrison at Berriedale, Tasmania, on the 6th of September, 1896. 
Specimen A. measures = 1°29 x 0°88. 
RUSSET GROUND THRUSH, 
Geocichla heinii, Cabanis. 
Set of 2 eggs, which are rather different to those of the two latter species, being of a fale green 
ground colour, and sfavingly marked and blotched with dull and rich purplish-brown. Taken at 
Booyong Scrubs, 14 miles north-east 
of Lismore, Richmond River, New 
South Wales, on the 15th of Novem- 
ber, 1899, by W. McEnerny and Sid. 
W. Jackson, The nest is a beautiful 
cup-shaped structure, composed of 
green moss (//ypuum), and was 
picturesquely placed on top of a 
Stag-horn Fern (Platycerium grande), 
which was growing on the side of a 
Booyong tree(Zarrietia actinophylla). 
The shellisexceedingly fragile. Speci- 
men A. measures = 1°14 x o°'88. 
FIG BIRD, 
Sphecotheres maxillavis, Latham. 
Beautiful clutch of 3 eggs, which 
are very large and well blotched 
specimens. Taken in Alipou Scrub, 
South Grafton, Clarence River, New 
South Wales, on the 16th of Decem- 
ber, 1894, by Frank and Sid. W. 
Jackson. The nest was built in a 
tall Lilly Pilly tree (Eugenia Smithii), 
and placed at an altitude of nearly 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE FIG BIRD. 
(About one third of the natural size.) 
30 feet, at the very extremity of a Loc., South Grafton, Clarence River, N.S.W. 
long thin branch, which rendered it (See data No. 540, page 99.) 
difficult to scoop the eggs from it. 
These birds were very plentiful about Grafton during season 1894, and many of them actually built 
their nests in the Camphor Laurel trees (Camphora officinarum) growing in the streets of the city. 
During my last visit to Brisbane, in September of 1906, I found nests of this species built in the trees 
growing in the parks and gardens there. The eggs vary much in their ground colouring and general 
markings. We took nine clutches of the eggs near Grafton, and no two sets were alike. The eggs can 
be seen through the nest from below. (See A. J. Campbell's book, at foot of page 83). The note of 
this bird resembles “ chick-ock, chee-koy.” Specimen A, measures = 1°43 x 0°97. 
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