Data Cam 
No. 
No. in 
A 
Book, 
579 442 
580 = 446 
581 448 
582 444 
583445 
584 437 
J. 
pbell’s No. of 
Eggs. 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
of Jackasses flying up into the air with a snake, which was about five feet long, and when at an elevation 
of fully 200 feet they let the reptile fall to the ground, killing it instantly, the birds following promptly 
and picking it up again. Only recently I have seen the Jackasses about the bush at Roseville, near 
Sydney, snake killing in the same manner. Specimen A. measures = 1°82 x 1°47. 
LEACH KINGFISHER, 
Dacelo leachit, V. and H. 
Set of 3 eggs, which were taken near Maryborough, Queensland, by W. Burton, on the 28th of 
September, 1897. The first eggs I saw of this species were taken from a nest which had been made in 
a white ants’ mound, on the trunk of a dead tree near Bundaberg, Queensland, during 1881; in the 
same tree there was also a Forest Kingfisher’s nest, which contained five young birds. Specimen A. 
measures = 1°83 xX 1°37. 
SACRED KINGFISHER, 
Halcyon sanctus, V. and H. 
Set of 5 eggs, which were taken from the hollow limb of a Red Eucalypt (Eucalyptus rostrata), at 
South Grafton, N.S.W., on the 5th of December, 1894, by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson. This 
species we found resorting to hollow limbs when nesting, and not to the mounds of the tree white ant 
(Termites). Specimen A. measures = 1'1t x 0°87. 
WHITE-TAILED KINGFISHER, 
Tanysiptera sylvia, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, one being a little smaller than the others, that were taken from a nest, which was 
simply an excavation tunnelled into a mound or hillock of the white ants (Zermites), and placed about 
18 inches up from the ground. The set was taken in the scrubs at Cape York Peninsula, North 
Queensland, during February of 1897, by H. Barnard. Specimen A. measures = 1'or x 0°87. 
FOREST KINGFISHER, 
Halcyon macleayi, J. and S. 
(This bird is known to the aborigines of the Clarence River district as ‘‘ Jerry-dun-gun."’) 
Set of 5 eggs, which were taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson near South Grafton, Clarence River, 
N.S.W., on the 4th of November, 1893. The nest was situated 30 feet high, in an ants’ mound on the 
side of a forest Apple tree (Angophova). They are very pearly white eggs. We always found this 
species building in the nests of the white ant about Grafton, and not in hollow limbs. Specimen A. 
measures = 0°99 x 0°86. 
RED-BACKED KINGFISHER, 
fHalcyon pyrrhopygius, Gould. 
Beautiful set of 5 eggs, which were taken from a nest at the end of a tunnel, which had been 
formed in the bank of a creek. It was 3 feet 8 inches long, the eggs being placed in a neat chamber 
at the extremity. Taken by Sid. W. Jackson at South Grafton, N.S.W., on the rith of September, 
1898. This bird was very uncommon in the Clarence River district, and this is the first set of its 
eggs that I have ever had the pleasure of finding. Specimen A. measures = 0°95 x 0°86. 
BLUE KINGFISHER, 
Alcyone azurea, Latham. 
Beautiful pearly white set of 5 eggs, which were taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, in Sericornis 
Creek, a branch of the Little Murray River, near the Don Dorrigo scrubs, New South Wales, on the 
roth of October, 1898. The nest was a small round cavity, similar to that of the latter species, and 
placed at the extremity of a tunnel in the bank of the creek, and was over four feet long. This hand- 
some bird loves to dwell in the small fresh-water creeks that are well clothed and shaded with dense 
scrub-like vegetation. I have taken several sets of these eggs near Grafton. Specimen A. measures 
= 0:85 X 072. 
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