. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . ON. bird, which I found at Booyong, the cast off skins of the following snakes were used in profusion, Snake (Pseudechisporphyriaciis). Carpet Snake {Python variegata), and the Death Adder {Acan-thophts antarctka). No doubt these skins are utilized for the purpose of scaring away other birds, scrubrats, and various nest-robbing animals from the nests. The eggs are glossy, of a beautiful richflesh ground colour, and, like those of the t
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . ON. bird, which I found at Booyong, the cast off skins of the following snakes were used in profusion, Snake (Pseudechisporphyriaciis). Carpet Snake {Python variegata), and the Death Adder {Acan-thophts antarctka). No doubt these skins are utilized for the purpose of scaring away other birds, scrubrats, and various nest-robbing animals from the nests. The eggs are glossy, of a beautiful richflesh ground colour, and, like those of the two following species, are marked with longitudinal streaksof reddish-brown and purplish-brown, and possess quite a hand-painted appearance. They greatlyresemble those of the sumptuously plumed Red Bird of Paradise {Paradisia rangiam) of New (iuinea,with the exception that those of the former are a little smaller. I had the pleasure lately of examiningin the collection of the Macleayan Museum, at the Sydney University, an egg of the latter speciestaken in New Guinea. In the Richmond River scrubs we noticed the Rifle Birds of Paradise frequently. Our Camp in the Booyong Scrubs, Richmond River, , in 1899. Reading from the left the personsare—\V. M. Parker, I. J. Foster, and W. McEnerny. The white cross denotes the position of our firstfind of the nest of the Kifle Bird of Paradise, from which clutch data No. 557 was taken. devouring large yellow centipedes, which are collected in the hollows of trees, and the only timethat I noticed one of these birds on the ground was when a female dropped a huge centipede, and (lewdown to pick it up. Strange to say we only saw the hen birds go into the hollows in quest of insects,the handsome males never doing so ; but we have known a hen to remain in a cavity for nearly halfan hour, and then finally make an apiiearance again with a centipede in her bill, which she would givea few hard raps on the limb, and then swallow, the tail end of
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