. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . It is agrand sight to climbup and look into oneof these huge nestsor platforms, whichusually command asplendid view of allthe surroundingcountry. These birds,although nearly al-ways frequentingcoastal country, areoften seen as far as ahundred miles inland,and where they some-times breed. I haveseen them about Syd-ney, and only ([uiterecently my attentionwas directed to one of their nests, which was built in a tall Eucalypt ona rocky ridge near Fr
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . It is agrand sight to climbup and look into oneof these huge nestsor platforms, whichusually command asplendid view of allthe surroundingcountry. These birds,although nearly al-ways frequentingcoastal country, areoften seen as far as ahundred miles inland,and where they some-times breed. I haveseen them about Syd-ney, and only ([uiterecently my attentionwas directed to one of their nests, which was built in a tall Eucalypt ona rocky ridge near Frenchs Creek, at the head ofMiddle Harbour, near Sydney. On Susan Island,in the Clarence River, opposite Grafton, we saw twonests, and no doubt they are still there to this day. Frank T. A. Jackson up on the huge nest of the One of them was placed in a giant Scrub Fig tree While-bellied Sea Eagle. , „ n \ \. i ■ i_. r . • , r- t r-\ n- vT o Mr (F/fMS m> a {See data \o. :;5T.) diameter at the base, and the other nest was built.
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