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Gruund (Swamp) Parrot ' . . . . Guolinang. 



Night (Spinifex) Parrot . . . . Myrlumbing. 



Blue Mountain Lorikeet . . . . Warren. 



Purple-ci owned Lorikeet . . . . Kowa. 



Little Lorikeet.. .. .. .. Jerriang. 



Varied Lorikeet . . . . . . Wcro. 



Little Green Pigeon . . . . . . Punkaree. 



Bronzewing Pigeon . . . . . . Wairi Warri. 



Crested Bronzewing . . . . . . Warracoutali. 



Squatter or Partridge Bronzewing . . Manga. 



Sun-Bird . . . . . . . . Tirridirri. 



Chestnut-erowned Babbler . . . . Pirrigilgilli. 



Grey-crowned Babbler . . . . . . Wirrbing. 



Spotted Diamond-Bird . . . . . . Wcetuwee . Birds' 



Spine-tailed Log-runner .. .. Chow-chilla' own 



White-plumed Honey-eater .. .. Chickowee J notes. 



Such names as Galah, Corella, Budgerigar, Ouarrian, Weejugla, 



Kookaburra, &c., are in common use. Why not place them first, 

 as with Gang-Gang and Wonga Wonga, instead of Rose-breasted 

 Cockatoo, Long-billed Cockatoo, Warbling Grass-Parrot, and so 

 forth ? 



The Little Eagle. 



By R. G. LL\ys, R.A.O.U., Sentry Box, N.S.W. 



In June last I was attracted by the strange flight and whistle of 

 a new bird in the district {Etitolntcehts morphnoides). Flying at a 

 great height, it kept closing its wings and dropping as low as the 

 tree-tops, then rising again to wheie it had started from almost 

 perpendicularly ; this it repeated for several minutes at a time, 

 all the while calling to its mate, who was on the wing higher up. 

 Its call is three little whi'^tles, the first and last higher pitched than 

 the middle one, and it is so penetrating that you can hear the 

 whistle while the bird is still too high to see. Hearing the whistle 

 every day, I could generally see the bird after a time, very high 

 in the air, going through these manoeuvres of his, rising and falling 

 hundreds of feet at a time, as if to work off his superfluous energy, 

 and one day I saw him alight on a very tall dead tree overlooking 

 a rabbit warren. This was the first time I had seen him resting, 

 and then it was only to watch for young rabbits to come (Jut, on 

 A\-hich he was living. Saw him on two occasions pick up small 

 kittens and carry them off. After watching this pair off and on 

 for nearly two months I discovered where they were nesting in a 

 tree over another rabbit warren, and secured a photograph of the 

 nest and egg {in situ), and the female bird was taken for identifica- 

 tion. Wing measurements were 22 inches — much larger than before 

 described. The male l)ird was never seen helping in nest-building, 

 but was always near, flying high above the tree. They seldom 

 flap the wings when once up in the air, and rival the W'edge-tailed 



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