154 RECORDP OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



Only odd pairs seen at Coolabali, and comparatively rare. 

 It is the most common species of the genus Psejihatus, inhabit- 

 ing New South Wales. At Brewarrina it was more 

 freely distributed, especially in the large EiicaJi/jiti, growing 

 on the sides, or in the vicinity of the Barwon River near the 

 bridge, about a mile out of town. One's attention is usually 

 attracted to this S})ecies by the brilliant red colouring of the 

 rumj) of the adult male, but^ on this occasion it was the low 

 twittering notes of the female's consort, resembling those of the 

 Warbling Grass-Parrakeet. I soon found that it proceeded 

 from an adult male perched neai- a hole in a dead branch, and 

 from which the female soon issued and flew a short distance 

 awa}' on to the ground in company with the male. Two othei- 

 nesting-places were discovered by the same means in trees not 

 far away. This was the only species of the Order Psittaci, I 

 found breeding during the trip. 



Haijastiir sphenurds. 



Whistling Eagle. 



Milnis ><ii/ie)iurns, Vieili., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xx., {». 564 

 (1818). 



Jlidiia^tur s-jiheiiurtis, Gould, Bds. Austr., fol., i., pi. 5 (1848) ; 

 /</., Handbk. Bds. Austr., i., p. 20 (1865) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Bds. Biit. Mus., i., ]>. 316 (1874) ; North, Nests and Kggs 

 Austr. Bds., 2nd. ed. iii., pt. iii. p. 227 (1911). 



The Whistling Eagle was the only bird of prey seen. It 

 was noted on several occasions flying low down over the town 

 of Brewarrina, and uttering at intervals, the peculiar notes, 

 fi-om whence it takes its vernacular name. I have never spent 

 a similar pei-iod in any part of the State, and noted the Order 

 Accipitres, any way near so poorly represented, and can only 

 attribute it to the unusually dry season. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. 

 Black Cormorant. 

 I'elecnnus carlo, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 216 (1766). 

 rJidhicroconui' carhoides, Gould, Bds. Austr., vii.. pi. 66 (1848). 



