136 NEST AND EGGS OF THE JABIRU ; 
ing gold mining township of Gympie, which, in its early 
days, did such good service in lifting the colony out of the 
slough of despond engendered by the depression of 1866, 
severely felt and long remembered by many of the residents 
of the city of Brisbane in the earlier days of our now pros- 
perous colony. 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE JABIRU; 
BY 
W. T. WHITE, Esa. 
WITH AN 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE; 
BY 
HENRY TRYON. 
(Read on 6th August, 1886.) 
Our Australian Jabiru, though never met with in Victoria 
or South Australia, is generally distributed throughout the 
remainder of the continent, being for the most part 
restricted to the coast districts, and seldom found more 
than 300 miles inland. It is nowhere plentiful, though it 
may be occasionally seen in some numbers about such 
estuarine waters as those of the Herbert River. Difficult 
to approach, its large size and conspicuously handsome 
appearance render it a favourite mark for the sports- 
man’s rifle, so much so that already it is a bird 
unheard of in the neighbourhood of settled districts. That 
the Jabiru is doomed to extinction, unless steps are taken 
to prohibit its slaughter, there can be little doubt; 
the description, however, of its habits and representation 
of its appearance given by the Nestor of Australian 
naturalists, Dr. G. Bennett, in his ‘“ Wanderings,” not to 
speak of the accounts of less popular writers, will help to 
perpetuate its memory. Its history, however, is not yet 
completely written, since its nidification and the character 
of its eggs are subjects which do not appear to have been 
