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IN June last the editors of the Emu issued a special number (vol. viii., part v.) containing a very interesting account, by Mr. S. W. Jackson, of a trip to northern Queensland in search of the nest and eggs of the tooth-billed bower-bird (Scenopaestes dentirostris). The expedition was undertaken on behalf of Mr. H. L. White, and appears, in spite of many difficulties, to have been eminently successful in the attainment of its object. The exploration of the tropical forests of Australia is by no means devoid of danger. Mr. Jackson himself was laid up for a week with “Johnstone River fever,” which he regards as the almost inevitable price of his wanderings in the moist, fever-stricken scrubs, and one of his natives was killed by the falling branch of a tree, while the “scrub-itch mites” appear to constitute a plague of no mean order. It was a long time before he succeeded in obtaining the nests and eggs of the tooth-bill, though the playing-grounds were met with in great abundance.
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An Ornithologist in Queensland . Nature 82, 56–57 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082056b0
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