188 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. Hogsrirrp's Description of the 
ticularly about the Flats, a few miles below Paramatta. The 
natives tell me it feeds upon dead fish, and the bones (of fish I 
apprehend) which they leave. The Flats is a noted fishing |. 
place for the natives: the water there is shallow, and at ebb- 
tide a great portion of sand is left bare, which, with some marshy 
land adjoining, forms a convenient resort for several species of © 
birds." 
Genus. Aquiza. Cuv. | 
1. Fucosa. Aq. fusco-brunnea, capite scapularibus ptilisque fer- 
rugineo-brunneis, remigibus femoribus caudáque cuneatá fusco- 
nigris. TT » 
Aquila fucosa. Cuv. Règne Anim. pl. iii. f. 1. 
Aigle à queue etagée. Temm. Pl. Col. 32. - 
Fam. STRIGIDÆ. 
Genus. Nocrua. Sav. 
1. Boosoox. N. superné brunnea, maculis parcis albido-flaves- 
centibus ; subtus albida, maculis ferrugineis variegata ; digi- 
tis pilosis. 3 
Strix Boobook. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xv. no. 9. 
Boobook Owl. Id. Gen. Hist. i. p. 362. no. 66. 
‘ The native name of this bird,” as Mr. Caley informs us, 
* is Buck’buck. It may be heard nearly every night during 
winter uttering a cry corresponding with that word. Although 
this cry is known to every one, yet the bird itself is known but 
to few; and it cost me considerable time and trouble before 
I could satisfy myself respecting its identity. The note of the 
bird is somewhat similar to that of the European cuckoo, and 
the colonists have hence given it that name. "The lower order 
of the settlers in New South Wales are led away by the idea 
that every thing is the reverse in that country to what it is in 
England : 
