No. 
642 
643 
644 
645 
645A 
646 
646A 
No. in 
A. J. 
Data Campbell’s No. of 
B Eggs. 
ook. 
592 
592 
601 
601 
601 
603 
603 
THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 
Drawer R. 
STONE PLOVER OR BUSH CURLEW, 
Burhinus (C@dicnemus) grallarius, Latham. 
(This bird is known to the aborigines of the Clarence River district as ‘' Whare-bung-arie."’) 
Splendid set of 2 well marked eggs, which were taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, at Clarenza, 
South Grafton, N.S.W., on the 21st of October, 1894. These eggs are characterised by their remarkably 
protective coloring. They were placed upon the bare ground among dead trees, on a gentle slope at 
the foot of a hill. They are very swollen types. Specimen A. is beautifully blotched, and measures 
= 2°25 x) 1:68. 
Magnificent pair of eggs, taken by Sid. W. Jackson, at the South Pine River, North-east of Bris- 
bane, Q., during October of 1885. This clutch are most extraordinary specimens, owing to their very 
long and torpedo-like shape, and are the most pointed types I have collected. Both are beautifully 
blotched, and specimen A. measures = 2°64 x 1°48. 
SPUR-WINGED PLOVER, 
Lobivanellus lobatus, Latham. 
Set of 4 eggs, of the dark variety, which were taken from the edge of Duck Swamp, South Grafton, 
N.S.W., by W. McEnerny and Frank T. A. Jackson, on the 16th of October, 1892. Specimen A. 
measures = 1°97 X 1°44. 
Set of 4 eggs, which are dark specimens, and were taken at Caramana, near South Grafton, Clarence 
River, N.S.W., by Sid. W. Jackson, on the 14th of July, 1895. JI once found a set of these eggs on 
the side of a very steep hill, really a most unusual place for this bird to lay. The eggs were placed in 
a small hollow, about five inches across by one deep, which evidently had been made by cattle while 
climbing up when the ground was wet. Specimens A. and B. are much darker than the other two. 
Specimen A. measures = 2°02 xX 1°42. 
Set of 4 handsome eggs, which are of a lighter and smaller variety than those of the two previous 
sets, which are from the Clarence River district. ‘They were taken by myself 424 miles north-east of 
Scone, N.S.W., on a stony ridge at the junction of the Upper Hunter River and Page’s Creek, near the 
homestead on Ellerston Station, on the 16th of August, 1907. I saw the Plover fly from the ridge, 
and on going over and carefully examining the place, found the four eggs nestled in a slight hollow 
which the birds had scratched out amongst several large loose stones. The eggs were in rather an 
advanced state of incubation, but nevertheless I succeeded in neatly blowing them. Specimen A. 
measures in inches = 1°90 x I’4o. 
BLACK-BREASTED PLOVER, 
Zonifer tricolor, Vieillot. 
Set of 4 eggs, which were taken from the edge of a swamp near South Grafton, Clarence River, by 
Frank and Sid. W. Jackson, on the 26th of August, 1893. This species does not often visit the 
Clarence River district, and we only found this set of its eggs there. Specimen A. measures = 1°73 
pamez Ge 
Set of 4 eggs, which were in an advanced state of incubation, but were successfully emptied. I 
found them on clear flat ground at the back of the woolshed, not far from the thicket of Yarren trees 
(Acacia homalophylla), on Belltrees Station, near Scone, N.S.W., on the 17th of August, 1907. Their 
colouring so greatly resembles the ground where they were deposited, that it was extremely difficult to 
detect them, and I walked past within a few feet several times before making the find. When I first 
saw the bird I went down over the small gravelly slope, and there remained out of sight for ten minutes, 
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