272 FALCONII).?-;. 



2. Gibraltar, 10th May (L. H. I.). Seebobm Coll. 



2. South Russia, 16th May (H. Goebel). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. KbifanM'Sakta, Algeria, 24th April. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Eutolmaetus morphnoides (Gould). 



Ilieraetus morphuoides, Gould, Hnndh. Birds Austr. i. p. 11 (1865). 

 Nisaetus morphnoides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 254 (1874) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 7 (1899) ; Ca?7ipbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. 



Birds, i. p. 15, pi. 2 (1901). 

 Aquila morphnoides, North, Nests ^- Bqqs Austr. Birds, p. 6, pi. ii. fig. 1 



(1889). 

 Eutolmaetus morphnoides, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 262 (1899). 



The eggs of the Australian Booted Eagle are of a short elliptical 

 or spheriodal shape and without gloss. They are white, sparingly 

 spotted and blotched with yellowish brown or dull purplish grey, 

 or a combination of both. Five examples measure respectively : 

 2-02 by 1-7 ; 2-2 by 1-78 ; 2-25 by 1-83 ; 2-2 by 1-7 : 2-2 by 1-67. 



1. Australia. Gould Coll. 



1. Interior of Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. Dawson Paver, Queensland, Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{North Coll.). 

 1. South Australia {S. White). Gould Co'.l. 



Genus ICTINAETUS, Jerd. 



Ictinaetus malayensis {Temm.). 



(Plate XIII. lig. 1.) 



Neopus malayensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 257 (1874) ; Legge, 



Birds Cet/lon, p. 47 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests i^ Eggs Ind. 



B. iii. p. 145 (1890). 

 Ictinaetus malayensis, Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. .347 (1895) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 263 (1899) ; Buchanan, Journ. Bomb. Nat. 



Hist. Soc. xii. p. 776 (1899). 



The eggs of the Black Eagle are of a short oval or elliptical 

 shape, coarse in texture, and almost without gloss. One specimen in 

 the Collection appears to have been plain white ; a second example 

 is white, mottled and spotted all over, but more densely at the 

 smaller end than elsewhere, with brownish red. They measure 

 respectively : 2-5 by 1-82 ; 2-5 by 2-u3. 



1. Bussahir, Himalayas, 4th Jan. Hume Coll. 



1. Kulu, Himalayas," 7th .Ian. Hume Coll. 



Genus SPIZAETUS, Vielll. 

 Spizaetus bellicosus (Band.). 



Spizaetus bellicosus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 265 (1874) ; id. ed. 

 Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 40 (1875-84) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 263 (1899). 



The egg of the Martial Hawk-Eagle in rhe Collection is of a 

 broad oval shape, rough in texture, and quite devoid of any gloss. 



