NLSrS AXD EGGS 01- AL\ST KALIAN BIKPS. \i 



tjuiet, uuobstrusivc disposition), to adoru my colluctiou. This time the nest 

 Wivs built in a lemon-scented gum ( Euidlyytus citriudvruj, and was con- 

 stmcted in a flat fork, projecting straight out from tlic tree, at a height 

 of about sixty feet from the ground. Thei-e were two eggs in the nest ; 

 but in communicating with Mr. North, to whom lie also presented a 

 specimen, Mr. B;u-nai'd wrote: — -"A ratiier singular occurrence took place 

 about tho Kadiated Goshawk's nest. Wlien my sons found it thore were 

 two eggs in it; and one of them shot tho male. About a mouth aft»;r, 

 being up that way ;igaiu, one of them climbed the tree and found another 

 egg in the nest, evidently laid after the iii'st eggs were taken and the 

 male shot." 



The description, &c., of the eggs above given iU'e from those two nests. 

 A third nest was, however, found on the 3rd October, 1893, by 

 Mr. Harry Barnard, but it contained two young ones a few days old. 

 lu tliis insUiuce the nest was again situated in a large lemon-sceutetl gum, 

 and at a distance of seventy-three feet from the ground. 



The breeding months of the lied or Radiated Goshawk may thercfoxx' 

 bo said to bo August, September and October. 



Slb-family — AyiiLiN^ : Eagles. 



10. — Uroaetus audax, Latham. — (i) 

 WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE (EAGLE HAWK). 



Figure. — Gould : Birds of Austraha, lol., vol. i., pi. i. 



Reference. — Cat. Birds brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 231. 



Previous Descriptions u/ ii^'gi.— Ramsay : Ibis, vol. v., p 44b (iSoj) ; 



Gould ; Birds of Australia, Handbook, vol. i., p. 10 (1SO5) ; 



North; Austn. Mus. Cat., pi. i., fig. i (1SS9) ; Campbell: Froc 



Austn. Assoc, vol. vi., p. 424 (1895). 



Geographical Distrihutioii. — Whole of Australia and Tasmania. 



Nest. — Composed of dead sticks, and lined inside with such material 

 as stringybark or grass and green branchlets. Usually the structure is 

 exceedingly bulky, but somewhat flat on the top ; a fail-sized nest 

 measuring about five or six feet across; inside, or egg cavity, about 

 foiu-tccn inches across by tkree or four inches deep. Situation, always 

 a commanding one — a tall forest tree, or the forked Umb of a tree at the 

 bend of a river, or on a good moimtain outlook. On the plains of the 

 interior, where timber is absent, tho nest is sometimes constructed of 

 gi'ass and placed on a bush. 



E(j<j.-i. — Clutch, two usually, sometimes one, rarely three; round in 

 shape or round ovals; textui-e of shell coarse, surface dull and lustreless; 



