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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
the feathers are generally darker and slightly mottled in parts ; the chest has a few shining spangle-like 
shields and patches of sooty-black ; the thighs also are sooty, and on the abdomen is a patch of feathers 
margined with rich olive green. See A. J. Campbell’s book on “ Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,” 
page 1073, for my notes on these finds ; the photograph of this nest and set of eggs is opposite page 68. 
Accompanying these descriptions will be found several photographs treating with this set of eggs, which 
give the following measurements ;—Specimen 
A. = 1°36 x o'92; Specimen B. = 1°36 
x o'go. During my stay at Booyong I found 
five nests of this Bird of Paradise, and was 
successful in taking eggs from three of them. 
This set of 2 (No. 557) was the first find, 
and was taken on the 2nd of November, 
1899. The second find, also comprising a 
set of 2 eggs, was made on the 2oth of 
November of the same year, in the scrub 
between Booyong and Binna Burra, and the 
nest was placed at an altitude of 33 feet. This 
set I passed on to Dr. Chas. Ryan, M.D., of 
Melbourne. My third find was made in 
company with W. McEnerny, about a mile 
from the camp, on the 29th of November, 
and the nest, which contained only one egg 
(with incubation about seven days old), was 
situated only eight feet from the ground, and 
like the other nests was ingeniously festooned 
with the cast off skins of snakes (see illustra- 
tion), quantities being placed on the nest and 
adjoining vines. This nest and egg I forwarded 
to the Imperial Academy of Science at St. 
Petersburg, Russia. The fourth nest I found 
on the 30th of November, near Booyong, and 
placed at an altitude of 45 feet in dense vines 
with foliage at the top of a Booyong tree 
(Zarvietia actinophylia); arrangements were 
made to take it the following day. During 
the night a violent storm brought down 
a giant Fig Tree (Ficus macrophylla), which, 
clearing a path for itself in the scrub, in turn 
brought down the tree with the nest. W. 
McEnerny and I set to work afterwards look- 
ing amongst the fallen debris, and after an 
“Gress: Z ¥ Wm. McEnerny going up the pole to the second nest of the 
hour’s diligent search we founda large portion wow. Rife Bird of Paradise. 
of the nest, with fragments of the handsome Loc., Booyong Scrubs, Richmond River district, N.S.W. 
eggs. Severe storms at Booyong were of 
common occurrence, and destroyed at different times several sets of eggs of the various species, which 
we were watching with the view to taking. The fifth nest was found on the 4th of December, and was 
situated in a mass of parasitical tree-climbing ferns (/o/ypfodium), and placed at a height of 30 feet in 
the umbrageous foliage at the top of a small Scrub Cherry tree (Z/odendyon australe), in the scrub on 
the flat across Unio Creek, about three hundred yards from our camp at Booyong. This creek 
received its name from us on account of the large and beautiful pearl-bearing mussels (Unio 
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