. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . rub that we found the Atrichias nest and eggs, as wellas other species, during October of 189S. Taken by WMcEnerny and Sid. W. Jackson. The nest of thisbird is a very beautiful dome-shaped structure, com-posed of fine roots and long threads of a green tree-climbing moss (//ypniim), and is decorated with the white silk-like webs and cocoons ol spiders, andfrequently quite a quantity of lichen is fastened to it. The bird lives in the rich dense scr
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . rub that we found the Atrichias nest and eggs, as wellas other species, during October of 189S. Taken by WMcEnerny and Sid. W. Jackson. The nest of thisbird is a very beautiful dome-shaped structure, com-posed of fine roots and long threads of a green tree-climbing moss (//ypniim), and is decorated with the white silk-like webs and cocoons ol spiders, andfrequently quite a quantity of lichen is fastened to it. The bird lives in the rich dense scrubs, and Ihave never met with one in the forest or open bush. Its note is quite different to that of the White-throated Fly Eater, and is a feeble little twitter which resembles— two tid ed ed, two tid cd ed, twotid ed ed, and is uttered rapidly, the tided ed being of a higher tone than the first note. Specimen this set measures in inches = 063 x 0-47. Set of 3 eggs, taken by Sid. W. Jackson in the scrub at Bumble Creek, Ourimbah, near Gosford,, on the 15th of October, 1904. The nest was suspended from a branch of the large-leaved. NEST OF THE BROWN EATER. (More than half natural size ) Loc, 13inna Burra Scrubs, Richmond River. {See data No. 414.) 73 No. inA Campbelli No. ofNo. Book. K(f»(fl. THK J.^CKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Maidens Blush tree {Echinocarpus australis.) In company with Harold Blakeney I found several ofthese nests at Ourimbah, in December of 1905, but the birds had deserted them, and those whichoriginally contained one egg were found empty on our second visit, whereas they really should have hadtwo or three eggs in each. They are the strangest little creatures in the bush, on account of the way inwhich they carry their eggs away from the nests. An egg of this set measures = 060 x 0-43. TDjrSL^^AT^GJC 416 450 4: 104 418 97 419 95 RESTLESS FLiYCATCHER,Sisiim inquieta, marked set of 3 eggs, taken by C. Reid and Sid. W. Jack
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