Data C 
No. 
605 
606 
607 
608 
609 
610 
611 
613 
No. in 
A.J. 
ampbell’s No. of 
Book. 
47 
48 
51 
49 
46 
50 
244 
243 
Eggs. 
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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
HILL CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera arguta, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken from a tall Eucalypt on Flinder’s Range, South Australia, by H. Taylor, on 
the Sth of September, 1886. Specimen A. measures = 1°66 x 1°18. 
GREY CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera cuneicaudata, Vieillot. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken at Kurrajong, N.S.W., by J. Cox, on the 22nd of September, 1888. This set 
has retained its colour remarkably well, and like most other sets in the collection has faded but very 
little. Specimen A. measures = 1°77 x 1°25. 
SOOTY CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera fuliginosa, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken on the north coast of Tasmania by H. Ross, on the 31st of October, 1896. 
Specimen A. measures = 1°72 x 1°12. 
LEADEN CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera plumbea, Gould. 
One egg, which is a beautiful specimen, and was taken from a nest built on top of a tall, dead, 
hollow stump or barrel of a tree, on the Arthur River, South-west Australia, by S. Hall, on the 16th of 
July, 1895. It measures = 1°69 x 112. 
PIED CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera graculina, White. 
Set of 3 perfect specimens, which were taken by Frank T. A. Jackson at Corindi Creek, south of 
the Clarence River, N.S.W., on the 17th of October, 1896. The nest was placed in a Eucalyptus tree, 
at an altitude of 79 feet. The eggs of this bird are very rare, as the nests are usually placed in awkward 
positions at the extremities of long branches, rendering them quite impossible to get at. It was with 
only the greatest trouble and patience that this set was procured. See what A. J. Campbell says at the 
foot of page 58 in his book. This bird is well known as the “ Charawack” on the northern rivers of 
New South Wales. Its note resembles ‘“ char-a-wack, char-a-wack, char-a-wow.” The large Channel 
Bill Cuckoo, or Flood Bird, often deposits its eggs in the nests of this bird. Specimen A. measures = 
reGye x Ler: 
BLACK-WINGED CROW SHRIKE, 
Strepera melanoptera, Gould. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken in the south-western part of Victoria during August of 1889. Unfortunately 
this is all the data that I was able to procure about them. Specimen A. measures = 1°73 X 1°19. 
WHITE-WINGED BUTCHER BIRD, 
Cracticus leucopterus, Gould. 
Beautiful set of 3 eggs, taken near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, on the gth of October, 1808. 
Received from A. J. Campbell. Specimen A. measures = 1°23 x 0’go. 
PIED BUTCHER BIRD, 
Cracticus picatus, Gould. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by E. Drew in the Nicholson River district, North-west Queensland, on the 
18th of November, 1897. Specimen A. measures = 1°25 x 0°92. 
BLACK-THROATED BUTCHER BIRD, 
Cracticus nigvigularis, Gould. 
(This bird is known to the aborigines of the Clarence River district as ‘‘ Budg-e-gulen."’) 
Set of 4 eggs, of the yellowish-brown variety. Taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the 18th 
of September, 1892, from a nest in a Spotted Eucalypt (Eucalyptus maculata), at Bawden Bridge, Orara 
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