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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION, 
and where she had probably been scratching and feeding for some time ; but on arriving at the branch 
they perhaps discovered some white eggs, and of course would naturally designate them as those of the 
Rifle Bird, having seen such hen leave the hollow. The eggs may, in all probability, have belonged to 
the Little Nightjar (22gotheles), or some other species, which deposits white eggs in the hollow limbs of 
trees. I noticed the Rifle Bird very often scratching in amongst the dead leaves which had accumu- 
lated in the space behind the large leaves of the beautiful Stag-horn Ferns (Platycerium grande), and in 
the centres of the Birds-nest Ferns (Asplenium nidus) growing on the sides of the trees, wherein they 
find many beetles, consisting chiefly of Cavabidz. It was quite a common occurrence to see them 
hopping up the sides of the trees, after the fashion or the Tree Creepers (C/imacteris), and with their 
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NEST AND EGG OF THE N.S.W. RIFLE BIRD OF PARADISE, 
{Showing the quantity of cast off snake skins which has been utilized, apparently as a means of protection 
from marauders. This was the third nest which we discovered. 
(Half of the natural size.) 
Loc., Booyong Scrubs, Richmond River district, N.S.W. 
long curved bills, which are so perfectly adapted for the purpose, picking up various xylophagous 
insects from beneath the projecting scale-like sections of bark on the Red Cedar trees (Cedvela australis). 
On a thick horizontal limb of one of these trees, near our camp, we frequently watched one of the 
birds (@) doing a sort of fantastic dance ; he would open his wings to their fullest extent, then suddenly 
bring them over in front till the both ends touched the limb, and with his head well thrown back 
would walk majestically up and down the limb a distance of about three feet, bobbing up and 
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