TjROAftrUS. — AQUILA. 



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Sub-Family AQUILIN.E. 



Genus UROAETUS, Kaup. 



Uroaetus audax (Lath.). 



Aqiiila fucosa, Samsai/, Ibis, \6(y3, p. 446. 



Aqiiila audax, Guuld, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 8 (186-5) ; North, Nest^ 



^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. o, pi. i. fig. 1 (1889). 

 Uroaetus audax, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 231 (1874) ; id. Hand-l. 



i. p. 260 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 6 (1899) ; Campbell, 



Nests Sf Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 11, pi. i. (1901). 



The eggs of the Wedge-tailed Eagle are either elliptical or of a 

 broad oval shape. The shell is rough and has little or no gloss. 

 They are of various tvpes of coloration. In one the eggs are 

 yellowish white, either plain or marked with a few dark rufous 

 spots. In another they are white or cream-coloured, marked all over 

 with spots and small blotches of chocolate-brown, yellowish brown, 

 and underlying neutral-tint. In a third they are buff, boldly 

 smeared and blotched with reddish brown and purplish grey. They 

 measure from 2'6o to 3"2in length, and from 2-1 to 2'35in breadth. 



New South Wales, oth Dec. 



New South Wales, 12th Oct. 



Balala, N.S.W. {E. L. Luyard). 



Queensland. 



Dawson Hi ver, Queensland {North 



Coll.). 

 South Australia. 

 Milang, near Adelaide, S. Aurrtralia, 



9th .July. 

 Australia. 



1 asmania. 



Table Gape, Tasmania 

 Atkinson). 



{A. 1). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowlev Bequest. 

 J. B. White, Esq. [[\]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Gould Coll. 



E. S. Moulden, Esq. [P.]. 



(iould Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Genus AftUIL-^, Briss, 

 Aquila chrysaetus {Linn.}. 



Falco chrvsaetus et Falco fuh us, Thicti. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlviii. 

 (1840-54). 



Aquila chrysaetus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Tog. tab. 17. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitso)}, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 8, pi. iii., pi. iv. fig. i (1856); 

 Sahin, Ibis, 1859, p. 180; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 283; Neicton, 

 Ooth. Woll.-^t. i. p. 8, pi. ii. figs. 1-4, pi. iii. figs. 1-4, pi. iv. figs. 1-4 

 (1864); Sharjie, Cat. Birds B. M \. y>. 230 (1874:) ■. Da, /ford, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 4 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 533 (1880) ; Seebohm, lint. Birds, 

 i. p. 96, pi. 2 (1883) ; id. Birds Japan. Emp. p. 199 (ISiJO) ; Gates 

 ed, Hume, Nests ^- Eggs. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 130 (1890) ; Bendire, 

 Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 263, pi. ix. figs. 3 & 5 (1892); 

 Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 14. pi. 2. fig. 4 (1896); Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. i. p. 261 (1899). 



The eggs of the Golden Eagle are broadly oval, elliptical or 

 spheroidal in shape, and the shell is rough and devoid of gloss. The 



