. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . h ofnest overall 4 inches, height of egg cavity, inside, 3 inches, width of egg cavity, inside, 2 inches, fromback to front of nest inside 2J inches, opening of nest 2f inches. The food of the Atrichia I foundconsisted chiefly of snails eggs, young tender shelled snails, worms, and the and pupa of variousCarabidic and other Coleoptera, living among the damp masses of leaves on the ground in the scrubs. The note of the Atrichia is a very sh
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . h ofnest overall 4 inches, height of egg cavity, inside, 3 inches, width of egg cavity, inside, 2 inches, fromback to front of nest inside 2J inches, opening of nest 2f inches. The food of the Atrichia I foundconsisted chiefly of snails eggs, young tender shelled snails, worms, and the and pupa of variousCarabidic and other Coleoptera, living among the damp masses of leaves on the ground in the scrubs. The note of the Atrichia is a very shrill and loud penetrating chirp which is uttered slowly fourtimes, chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp, the last chirp being sounded a little lower than the others. The bird is agreat mimic, and I have frequently heard it imitate to perfection the notes of the spined-tailed 1-ogRunner {Orthonyx spinicaiida). The Goshawk (Astur approximans), and Vellow-throated Scrub Wren(Sericornis citreogiilaris), etc. The Common Yellow Robins (Eopsaltria aiistralis) about Sydney, whenthey give their four shrill chirp-like notes, resemble very much those of the Watching the Atrichia in the Don Dorrigo Scrubs, 18 THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. The particulars so far published concerning the Atrichia have been very fragmentary, and I ampleased to be able in these pages to give some original notes and descriptions of the bird and itshabits. While camped at Booyong scrubs in 1S99, I had many visits from my friend, Isaac J. Ioster,who was working in an adjoining scrub, and showed him the Atnchius nest which I found there, andgave him all information concerning this interesting species, re how, when and where they built, etc.,in order that it might later on be of assistance to him in finding the nest and eggs, or a female , two years later (November sth, 1901) he was successful in finding a nest near Booyong,and in the very locality I had advised him to watch, but unfortunate
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