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H. L. White Collection

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White's interest in egg-collecting began in boyhood and continued throughout his life. He increased the size of his own collection by purchasing others, including those of
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totalling 13,000 eggs. It is housed in the original custom-built
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Australian
pastoralist
ornithologist
oologist
Henry Luke White
National Museum of Victoria
Melbourne
paradise parrot
clutches
Queensland maple
F. Lawson Whitlock
Dudley Le Souef
Sidney Jackson
Australian Museum
Sydney
Alfred North


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