108 WHITE, Trip to Cape York Peninsula. KocT 



Urcaetus audax. Wedge-tailed Eagle. — Nearing a nest I cculd see 

 one cf the birds sitting on the edge of it, the other bird was just a 

 speck in the blue overhead. Climb up; no eggs; nest lined with 

 fresh branches and leaves of eucalypts, most of which only just 

 picked. 



Haliastur leucoga.ster. White-breasted Sea-Eagle. — Noted. 



Halia.stur pphenurus. Whistling Eagle. — Sevei'al times noted. One 

 bird was being savagely attacked by a Little Falcon. 



Milvus migrans (M. m.ajfinis) Allied Kite. — 8/11/21. — Single speci- 

 men seen flying along river. 



Gypoictinia melanosterna. Black-breasted Buzzard. — Noted. 



Falco longipenni.s. Little Falcon. — A pair of birds were seen at a 

 nest in a mountain ash (Eucalypt), when a Brown Hawk flew screech- 

 ing into the tree and took possession of the nest. The Falcons tried 

 to drive it away, but failed. I think the Hawk was the rightful 

 owner. 



leracidea berigora. Brown Hawk. — A nest, 50 feet from the ground, 

 in a bloodwood, contained one fully fledged young. 



Elanus axillaris. Australian Black-shouldered Kite. — Noted. 



*Nincx bcobook (Wb. macgilUvrayi). Cape Boobcok Owl. — Rapping 

 the trees I flush a bird from a hollow 25 feet from the ground; climb 

 and find two eggs. Flushed another bird from its roosting hollow; 

 it was chivvied unmercifully by a crowd of Friai'-Birds, Honey- 

 eaters, and Butcher-Birds until the Owl went into another hollow to 

 escape the maddening crowd. 



Ninox ( ? sp.). — Saw a bird flying about after dusk and sometimes 

 heard the call at night. 



*Trichoglossu.s moluccanus {T. »i. septentrionalis) . Northern Rain- 

 bow-Lorikeet. — A pair flushed Irom a hollow in a cabbage gum, could 

 net get at the nest. Two other nesting hollows were seen; secure 

 two eggs. 



Psitteuteles versicolcr. Varied Lorikeet. — Numerous with other 

 species of birds in the flowering gums. 



29/1/22. — These birds are now all paired off; see eight pairs in- 

 specting hollow spouts. One lot had enlarged the hollow by biting 

 out the rotten wood. 



2/4/22.— Find a nesting hollow 20 feet from the ground. The bird 

 would not come out so I enlarged the hole and put in my hand. The 

 bird bit a piece out of the ball of my thumb. Four eggs lying on a 

 bed of finely chipped rotten wood and dead gum leaves with a few 

 feathers. The dead leaves might have been part cf an old nest of 

 a small Phalanger (Marsupial). 



16/4/22.— Nest with four eggs in horizontal spout at depth of 12 

 inches. Three double handfuls cf chipped, rotten wood resting on 

 lip of .spout, which had been scratched out by the birds. Another 

 nest I cculd not get at, so made fast a rope; saw off spout, and lower 

 to ground. Entrance, 2i in.; depth cf hole, 2 ft. 9 in. Eggs, four, 

 resting en rotten wood with a few feathers of the bird, a green gum 

 leaf and a couple of cases of bag-moth. At another nest the male 

 was flushed, but the female climbed into a cavity above the entrance 

 hole and would not come out; three eggs. 



On two occasions eggs were observed in nesting sites previously 

 occupied by the Black Tree-Creeper (C. mclmwta). 



In one nesting hollow cf a Lorikeet the eggs were resting on a 

 bed of green eucalypt leaves nipped into small pieces, which the birds 



