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these eggs and not detect them, as they are so like their 

 surroundings, but the eggs of the Red-capped are more difficult 

 to detect still. They nested on coarse, gravelly sand, just at or 

 above high-water mark, where there is a small amount of seaweed 

 thrown up, and they generally make their nest close to a piece, 

 and, like the Hooded, seem to put a few pieces of broken shells 

 about. On a small island called Rabbit Island we found the 

 nesting burrows of the White-faced Storm Petrel, and the birds 

 had not been long sitting. The entrances were often very small. 

 We found also that a certain kind of crab made similar-sized 

 holes, in which a pair lived. On many of the islands we found 

 Caspian Terns, a pair generally to each island, and one nest with 

 4ts two eggs was found and also one young one. 



On all the islands Brown Quail, Syncecus australis, were fairly 

 plentiful, and their nests and eggs found, situated in or under a 

 tussock of grass, and generally well hidden. The eggs were the 

 same size as those from Tasmania, and larger than those from 

 Victoria. Only one pair of Reef Herons, Deniiegretta sacra, were 

 seen, and they apparently were not nesting, and on a small swamp 

 on Barren Island three White-fronted Herons, Notophoyx novce- 

 holla7idi(e. On the larger islands, where trees and shrubs 

 were more abundant and afforded good cover, land birds were 

 plentiful. They were identical with those found in Tasmania. 

 Nests of several were discovered, but no fresh eggs. 



The following is a list of the other birds seen and identified : — 



Sea-Eagle, White-bellied 



Eagle, Wedge-tailed 



Harrier ... 



Hawk, Brown 



Osprey ... 



Cockatoo, Black ... 



Raven ... 



Shrike-Thrush, Whistling 



Crow-Shrike, Black 



Cuckoo-Shrike, Small-billed . 



Robin, Flame-breasted 



Robin, Dusky 



Blue Wren, Long-tailed 



Fan-tail, Dusky 



Fly-catcher, Leaden 



Fly-catcher, Satin ... 



Reed-Warbler 



Ground-Thrush, Large-billed 



Emu Wren 



Grass-bird 



Scrub-Tit 



Scrub-Wren, Brown 



Field-Wren, Striated 



Haliaetus leucogaster 

 Uroaetus audax 

 Circus gouldi 

 Hieracidea berigora 

 Pandion leucocephalus 

 Calyptorhynchus macrorhynchus 

 Corone australis 

 Collyriocincla rectirostris 

 Strepera fuliginosa 

 Graucalus parvirostris 

 Petrceca phcenicea 

 P. vittata 

 Malurus gouldi 

 Rhipidura diemenensis 

 Myiagra rubecula 

 M. nitida 



Acrocephalus australis 

 Geocichla niacrorhyncha 

 Stipiturus malachurus 

 Megalurus gramineus 

 Sericornis magna 

 S. humilis 

 Calamanthus fuliginosus 



