. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . nter-esting species, which is already a rara avis, will beforever lost to us. I found five nests while in theRichmond River scrubs at Booyong, in 1899, butonly succeeded in getting an egg from one of them, and that was very heavily incubated and ditficult to blow ; the other four nests were very old ones, and,of course, blanks. The egg is a fine specimen, somewhat pointed atone end, while the groundcolour is of a rich puri)le-grey, and the extrem
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . nter-esting species, which is already a rara avis, will beforever lost to us. I found five nests while in theRichmond River scrubs at Booyong, in 1899, butonly succeeded in getting an egg from one of them, and that was very heavily incubated and ditficult to blow ; the other four nests were very old ones, and,of course, blanks. The egg is a fine specimen, somewhat pointed atone end, while the groundcolour is of a rich puri)le-grey, and the extreme end of the larger apex possesses a dark cap of deeppurplish-brown, with a few darker markings ; over the remainder of the egg are evenly scattered smallermarkings of the same colour. In general appearance it is cjuite different to those of the othertwo Lyre Birds. The nest, which was built on top of that of the previous season, was as usual roughlyconstructed and dome-shaped, and was placed on the ground between the buttresses or spurs at thefoot of a giant Large-leaved Fig tree {Ficus macrophylla), a sample of which is shown in a photograph. PRINCE alherts lyre iurd {Menura (j/6^)/;),Gould, Showing the tail feathers, which are different to thoseof the other two species. (About one-eighth of the natural size). (See data No. 676.) 134 ^.j THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Data Campbells No. ofNo. Book. Eifgs. further on. The egg measures in inches = 2 42 x 1-64, and was taken at the Booyong scrubs, in theRichmond River district of , by \V. McEnerny and myself, on the 6th of October, 1899. Thisbird is distinct from the other two, tiiough its habits and haunts are similar; the side feathers of thetail are shorter, and the bar markings observable in the case of Victoria and siipcrba are entirely absent,whilst the two central feathers, narrow and prolonged, cross each other at the base, curve outwards atthe tip, and are webbed only on their external side. This bird, which
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