. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . ings of reddish-chestnut and measures = 1-82 x 1-27. BITTERN, Botaurus ptKcilopfiliis,Wagler. One egg, which was takenfrom a nest in a swamp nearUlmarra, Clarence River,, on the 18th ofSeptember, 1892, by Jackson. The egg washeavily incubated, and inthe nest were also threefreshly hatched young. Thisspecimen was successfullyblown after a lot of trouble,and is perfect. The eggsof this species are of anolive-brown colour
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . ings of reddish-chestnut and measures = 1-82 x 1-27. BITTERN, Botaurus ptKcilopfiliis,Wagler. One egg, which was takenfrom a nest in a swamp nearUlmarra, Clarence River,, on the 18th ofSeptember, 1892, by Jackson. The egg washeavily incubated, and inthe nest were also threefreshly hatched young. Thisspecimen was successfullyblown after a lot of trouble,and is perfect. The eggsof this species are of anolive-brown colour, andhave no markings. Thisone measures = 1-91 xI 47. I have never beenable to obtain a perfect set of4 of them, not even throughthe medium of exchanges. Two eggs, taken onthe Murray River Swamps,Victoria, on the 4th of September, 1890, by G. This is a sample ot one ol the Lar^e-lcived Ki^ Trees (Fieiu mnerophyUn) W Carter Soecimen A ° ^ scrubs of the Clarence and Richmond River districts of New South Wales. which have frequently been quoted in the preceding pages. This giant measuresmeasures = 207 X I5I. over twenty feet across at the 630 714 3 LITTLE MANGROVE BITTERN, Butorides stagtuitilis, clutch of 3 eggs. Taken by Frank and Sid. W. Jackson at Caramana, near South Grafton,Clarence River, on the 9th of November, 1893. The nest, which was a very loose structure of thin 143 No. in DaU Campbells No. of No. Uuuk. Ekk». 63 THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAL COLLECTION. Slicks, was placed on a horizontally forked branch of a scrub tree, leaning over a small creek, and onlysix feet above the water. We were successful in finding several sets of these rare eggs, but this was ourfirst take. During November of the previous season (1892), I found a nest of this species containingtwo young birds, a fact which gave me much valuable assistance with regard to the locality theyfreijuented during breeding season ; also the style of their nests, and the position in which
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