. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . eggs—three of the Oriole, and one of the Koel scooping the eggs from the nest, the Koels egg got a little dented on the side, but has since beensuccessfully repaired. See accompanying illustrations, pages 100, loi. The three Orioles eggs measure—Specimen A. = 140 x loi ; Specimen B. = 1-34 x 0-97; Specimen C. = 1-39 x loi. TheKoels egg measures = i36 x 102. 99 No. CaiD)>li«llii No. of THE JACKSONIAN OOLOCIC
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . eggs—three of the Oriole, and one of the Koel scooping the eggs from the nest, the Koels egg got a little dented on the side, but has since beensuccessfully repaired. See accompanying illustrations, pages 100, loi. The three Orioles eggs measure—Specimen A. = 140 x loi ; Specimen B. = 1-34 x 0-97; Specimen C. = 1-39 x loi. TheKoels egg measures = i36 x 102. 99 No. CaiD)>li«llii No. of THE JACKSONIAN OOLOCICAL COLLECTION. KOEL. CUCKOO,Eudynamis cyanocephala, egg, taken with the latter set of 3 Orioles epgs, at South Grafton, Clarence River, ,by Sid. W. Jackson, on the 31st o( Octoher, 1894. The particulars re the discovery are given rare specimen was forwarded to the Australian Museum, in Sydney, for inspection, and wasdescribed in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, in 1895, concluding withthe following remark :— It will he observed that the egg of Plinders Cuckoo (Koel) is the same size. NEST AND CLUTCH OF THREE EGGS OK THE ORIOLE, AND ONE EGG OK THE KOEL CUCKOO. (About half of the natural size.) Loc, South Grafton, Clarence River, (Sec data So. 6i4, luige 9;i.) (about) as those of the (Ireen-backed Oriole, although, as a rule, the eggs of .Vustralian Cuckoos arelarger than those of the birds in whose nests they are deposited. In the choice of a foster-parent forits young, Flinders Cuckoo has, however, exercised great discrimination in selecting a sjiecies that,like itself, depends entirely on fruits and berries for its subsistence during the sjning and summermonths. The general note of the Koel is a real coo-ee like sound, that may be heard both night andday, and it is familiarly known in the country districts as the Coo-ee Bird, which name it hasundoubtedly received on account of its peculiar note. The male is of
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