. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . is a very fine set of 2 eggs, the ground color of which is nice and clean, and they are wellspotted with rich reddish-brown markings. Specimen B. has the zone of markings at the pointed end,while Specimen A. has it at the thick We collected this set just as a severe hail storm wascoming on, and before my brother took the eggs from the nest one of them got slightly fractured by ahailstone striking it after the Eagle flew off. The nest was b
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . is a very fine set of 2 eggs, the ground color of which is nice and clean, and they are wellspotted with rich reddish-brown markings. Specimen B. has the zone of markings at the pointed end,while Specimen A. has it at the thick We collected this set just as a severe hail storm wascoming on, and before my brother took the eggs from the nest one of them got slightly fractured by ahailstone striking it after the Eagle flew off. The nest was built in an upright limb of a Red Eucalypt(Eucalyptus rostrata), growing in Walkers paddock on the edge of Duck Swamp at Dallinga, SouthGrafton, N , and was robbed on the 15th of August, 1897. Taken by Frank and Sid. W. nest in which this set of eggs was deposited was built by a pair of Black-shouldered Kites. TheEagles, however, hunted the Kites away, and took possession of it, and the latter then resorted to andlaid in the Eagles old nest close by. Specimen A. measures in inches = 227 x r73. SpecimenB. measures = 2 2 7 x Frank T. A. Jackson up on a limb nearthe nest of the Whistling Eagle. Loc, Gerrymberrym, Clarence River,New South Wales. {See data So. 260.) 47 No- ° THE JACKSONIAN OOLOGICAl. COLLECTION. Datu Campbells No. ofNo. Book. Egga. 263 II 2 LITTLE EAGLE, Nisaetiis morphnoides, of 2 eggs, taken by C. E. Cowle, at Illaniurta, on the Finke River, Central Australia. Thenest was placed in a tall Eucalypt, and difficult to secure, and was constructed of sticks. The eggswere slightly incubated. Taken on 6th March, 1899. The Little E^gle was on the nest when thenative commenced to climb the tree. We found one nest of this bird in the Clarence River district,but after a difficult climb found the eggs just hatching. The nest was placed at the giddy altitude of126 feet, in a giant Flooded Eucalypt {Eucalyptus rostrata), the climbing operations b
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