No, in 
A. J. 
Data Cuampbell’s No. of 
No Book. Eggs. 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
ff, brevipila, and H. Richmondiana (young). In addition to these shells, and the coloured berries, 
leaves, etc., were numbers of the large glossy seeds from the Black Scrub Plum, known also as 
the Black Apple (Sidevoxylon australe), an insipid fruit which grows as large as a fowl’s egg. This bird 
was discovered during the regency of George IV., and was so named asa compliment to him. The 
camera was indeed of very great service to me while engaged collecting in the scrubs, and with it I was 
enabled to secure photographs of some very rare and interesting subjects. Before leaving Booyong I 
took the accompanying photograph of the play-house of the Regent Bower Bird, which I have 
already spoken of as being in the scrub across the creek. This bower was visited by the pair of birds 
belonging to the nest which contained the two eggs shown on page 112. Of the set of 2 eggs under 
BOWER OR PLAY GROUND OF THE REGENT BOWER BIRD, 
Showing snail shells, berries, flowers, seeds, etc., used by the birds for decorative purposes. 
(About one-sixth of the natural size.) 
Loc., Booyong Scrubs, Richmond River, N.S.W. 
notice specimen A. measures = 1°45 x 1°03, and is a beautifully marked egg, the long wavy lines 
continuously encircling it, and leaving the pointed end clear. On each side of the drill hole of this 
egg is a figure of the alphabet, and looking at it with the pointed end towards you, and the drill hole 
up, there is a capital § on the right hand side ; from it a delicate but distinct line runs past and below 
the drill hole to the left and around the egg, and touches the top of a capital J. This is a very strange 
coincidence, inasmuch as my initials are formed of those two letters. The drawing reproduced on page 
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