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THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
feet, in a huge Red Eucalypt (Eucalyptus rostrata). The tree was climbed by my brother, who in this 
case got up to the nest by chopping niches or steps with a tomahawk, holding on by a strong green 
vine that had been placed around the barrel of the tree, which was nearly six feet thick. The climb 
was a very difficult and dangerous one. We found upwards of a dozen of these nests in the Clarence 
River district, and they were all built in very large trees. Specimen A. measures = 2°13 X 1°52. 
See A. J. Campbell’s book, page 957, ve this set. 
WHITE-FRONTED HERON, 
Notophoyx nove hollandie, Latham. 
(This bird is known to the aborigines of the Clarence River district as ‘‘ Je-nam-or-run."') 
Set of 5 eggs, one being a round mal-formed specimen, and only a little larger than an ordinary 
sized glass marble. Taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, near South Grafton, N.S.W., on roth August, 
1898. The nest was placed in an Ironbark Eucalypt, at an altitude of 57 feet. These birds are very 
plentiful in the Grafton district. This set is of a richer blue than is usually found. Specimen A. of 
the set measures = 1°87 x 1°37. Specimen E. (small mal-formed egg) measures = 1°14 x 0°97. 
Set of 3 eggs, taken by W. McEnerny and Frank T. A. Jackson at Ti Tree Creek, South Grafton, 
N.S W., on the 28th of August, 1898. The nest was built in the same tree as that of the Whistling 
Eagle, and that of the latter contained two young birds, while both were placed in a Red Eucalypt 
(Eucalyptus rostrata). Specimen A. measures = 1°78 x 1°35. 
Large set of 5 eggs, which are splendid specimens and were taken on the 25th of September, 1898, 
by W. McEnerny, Frank, and Sid. W. Jackson, at the Lake, near South Grafton, N.S.W. The nest 
was placed at the end of a long limb, in a Red Eucalypt, at an altitude of over 60 feet, and was rather 
difficult to reach. The /irst set of these eggs I took was in September, 1891, and when informed as 
to where the nest was located, my brother and I walked 20 miles (there and back) to rob it. Specimen 
A. measures = 2°04 X 1°30. 
NIGHT OR NANKEEN HERON, 
Nycticorax caledonicus, Gmelin. 
Set of 3 eggs, which, to the cold scientific eye, appear very different to those of the latter species, 
being of a pale bluish or sea green. This clutch was the first that passed into my hands, and was 
forwarded to me by my friend C. Woodlands, who collected it in the Nicholson River district, near the 
Gulf of Carpentaria, where he has taken so many rare eggs. It was found on the roth of January, 
1898. Specimen A. measures = 1°99 x 1°47. My brother and I once found a colony of these birds 
busily engaged building their nests in a patch of Swamp Oak trees (Casuarina glauca) on the edge of 
a creek at Lavadia, near South Grafton, N.S.W., during the early part of November, 1894. Subsequently 
some thoughtless person shot a few of the birds, and to our great disappointment the whole lot of them 
at once quitted the spot, and we saw no more of them again. 
REEF HERON, 
Demiegretta sacra, Gmelin. 
Set of 2 eggs, taken by E. D. Atkinson, on a small island on the north-west part of Tasmania, on 
the 7th of November, 1892. The nest was placed on a rock on the sea beach. Specimen A. measures 
GREY HERON, 
Ardea cinerea, Linneus. 
One egg, taken in Europe during the season of 1893. Unfortunately no fuller data accompanied 
the egg, which was received from J. W. Mellor, of Fulham, near Adelaide, South Australia. This bird 
does not breed in Australia. The egg measures = 2:27 x 1°63. 
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