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The Wedge-tailed Eagle I have seen on a few occasions this 

 breeding season carry away young Ravens from out of 

 their nest and take them to their own eaglets. 

 September I saw a large Eagle swoop down 

 Southern Stone-Plover from the ground, and 

 carried to the eaglets in the nest. 



A few days ago, hearing the loud cries of a woman, I 

 rushed out of the hut, rifle in hand, and was just in time to 

 see an Eagle with a full-sized domestic fowl in its talons flying 

 low down towards the surface of the ground, about 80 yards 

 distant. In less time than I am writing this I put a bullet into 

 the Eagle and saved the fowl's life, minus a lot of her feathers. 



The Raven is a most destructive bird in the way of killing 

 and eating the little young birds out of their nests. They also 

 rob the small birds' nests of their eggs. 



Twelve Silver Gulls stayed on one of the tanks here for over 

 two weeks. 



The following record of a pine tree may be of some interest. 

 The ravages of some insects have caused the green foliage of the 

 pine to turn into a brownish hue, for it is now partly dead. 

 About 10 feet from the ground there is a fair-sized hole in the 

 trunk, where a Pink Cockatoo laid its three eggs, which were 

 taken possession of by a person on loth September. Then, by 25th 

 September, that handsome bird, the Many-coloured Parrakeet, 

 had laid its pearly-white eggs, four in number, in the same hole. 

 These also were missing, and on the 21st October following a 

 Kestrel had taken possession of the hole and laid its full com- 

 plement of four lovely eggs ; and now, on one of the drooping 

 branches, a pair of those strange birds, the White-shouldered 

 Lalage (Caterpillar-eater) have built their neat cobweb nest, and, 

 " to finish the contract," a pair of Bee-eaters have burrowed a 

 hole near the butt of the same pine tree and started to lay 

 in it. Can you beat this pine tree for such an interesting 

 zoological record.' — Chas. H. M'Lennan. Pine Plains, 5/1 1/06 



The Lines of Extension of Birds. — If the above 

 heading seems odd, yet to the writer's thinking it is appropriate. 

 With this short introductory sentence I will proceed to give 

 some notes on the Straw-necked Ibis, a bird that first came 

 under my observation when on the Murrumbidgee River in the 

 sixties. In the year 1869, as there was a severe drought, we had 

 to move a flock of sheep to Mt. William, near Lancefield. 

 Lancefield is 42 miles from Melbourne by the metalled road. 

 One day a flock of Ibis was seen making south, and I was 

 surprised to see those fine birds come so far down into our part 

 of Victoria ; but the late Mr. Tom Kissock had noted them at 



