lO ^/ESTS AXD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



with a cartx-idge, as I hoped to have the chance of robbing the Cockatoo's 

 nest myself." 



The breeding season generally of the Collared Sparrow Hawk is 

 included in tlie months fi-om August to November, and possibly 

 December. 



Sub-family — Bvteonin/E : Buzzards. 



9. — Ukospizias radiatus, Latham. — (IGj 

 RED GOSHAWK. 



Figmc—GouM : Birds of .Australia, fol., vol, i., pi. i6. 



Reference- 'CaX. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 159. 



Previous Descriptions 0/ Eggs.— Ra.msa.y: Proc. Linu. Soc, N S. Wales, 

 2nd ser., vol. i. p. 1141 (1S86) ; Campbell : Victorian Naturalist 

 (1886); North: Austn. Mus. Cat., app. pi. 2, fig. 2 (1S90) : 

 Campbell: Proc. Austn. .A.ssoc. vol. vi. p. 422 (1895). 



Geographical Dixtrihution. — South Queensland and New South Wales, 

 and probably the interior of both Northern Tenitory and South Australia. 



yest. — Somewhat large, constructed of sticks lined inside with twigs 

 and cucalypt leaves, and placed in a lofty tree, usually a eucalypt. 



Eggs. — Clutch, two to three ; roundish in shape ; surface somewhat 

 rough and without lustre; colour, uniform dull or bluish-white. One 

 example in a pair has a few blotches, spots, and other irregtdar markings 

 of dark-brown. Dimensions in inches: (1) 2-19 x 1-79, (2) 2-14 x 1-81. 

 Two examples of a second clutch of three, which were all without 

 markings, give— (1) 2-25 x 1-79, (2) 2-17 x 1-82. 



Observations. — Tliis rare and powerful Goshawk is an inhabitant cliiefiy 

 of the Ulterior. The eggs were first brought to scientific hght by the late 

 Mr. George Barnard, of Coomooboolaroo, Central Queensland, whose good 

 name was, and is now through his sons, a household word amongst natmal 

 liistory collectors in AustraHa. The first and original nest was found in 

 September, 1884, by Mr. Barnard's sous in the top of a lofty Moreton 

 Bay ash (Eucalyptus tesselaris) on their cattle station. The nest con- 

 tained a pair of eggs. Mr. Barnard did not allow the interesting 

 chscovcry to grow cold, but at once forwarded a specimen to the Australian 

 Museiun for Dr. Ramsay to describe, while the description furnished by me 

 in the " Victorian Natiu-alist " was taken from the other specimen in the 

 collection at Coomooboolaroo. 



A second nest was not found till 29th October, 1889, when a fine egg 

 was forwarded by Mr. Barnard in an unostentatious manner (as was his 



