oh THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION 
Data Campbell's No. of 
No. Book. Eggs. 
and has red eyes, while the temale is grey with a whitish breast, mottled with scales of black. During 
October of 1895 my brother and I hunted a Koel ( ? ) from the nest of the Babbler (/omatorhinus), on 
two occasions, near South Grafton, N.S.W. The eggs of this Cuckoo must be plentiful some seasons 
in the Clarence River district, as the birds are often very numerous there during October, November. 
RARE EGG OF THE KOEL CUCKOO. 
(Natural size). 
(See data No. 544 page 100). 
and December. Their eggs resemble very much 
some specimens of those laid by the Leather 
Head or Friar Bird. 
545 582 NORTHERN ORIOLE, 
Oriolus affinis, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken in the Bloomfield River 
district, North Queensland, by collector engaged 
by C. French, jor., on 26th December, 1895. 
These eggs are a little different to those of the 
New South Wales species. Specimen A. measures 
= 1°30 x 0°96. 
546 592 YELLOW ORIOLE, 
Oriolus flavicinctus, King. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by H. Barnard, at Cape 
York, North Queensland, on January 3rd, 1897. 
Specimen A. measures in inches = 1°15 x 0°87, 
and is a darker and less pointed egg than speci- 
men B., yet they are both from the very same 
nest, and taken together. These are the smallest 
eggs of the Oriole family. 
547 181 3 ROCK WARBLER, 
Origma rubricata, Latham. 
Set of 3 pearly white eggs, taken by Sid. 
W. Jackson, ina cave at the South-west Arm, 
Port Hacking, south of Sydney, on the 26th of 
September, 1903. The nest, which also contained 
an egg of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo, was the usual NEST OF THE ROCK WARBLER, 
bleached looking dome-shaped structure, and Suspended from the roof of a cave. 
(About one quarter of the natural size.) 
Loc., Port Hacking, near Sydney. 
principally of fibrous roots, bark, leaves and (See data No. 547.) 
measured 18 by 6 inches, and was composed 
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