•200 Ai.iUII.IN.E. 



was about seventy feet from the ground, and was composed of dry sticks, interwoven with twills 

 slightly pressed down in the centre. The second nest was built in a Lemon-scented Gum, 

 about fifty feet from the ground ; this was a \ ery hard climb, but when 1 reached the nest was 

 rewarded with a pair of eggs; in the nest were also the hind legs and tail of a Fiilled Lizard, 

 the rest had evidently been eaten. One day near the lagoon at Coomooboolaroo, a rtock of 

 Wood Ducks ('C//c;w;;iV/(7 jubata) was feeding in the grass about thirty yards from me, when I 

 saw an .htiiv radialns approaching, and it was also obsetxed by the Ducks, which at once made 

 a dash for the water. Like a flash the bird of prey was among them, striking down and killing 

 one before they reached the margin of the lagoon." 



Subse(]uently Mr. Barnard wrote me that he had found another nest built in a Lemon- 

 scented Gum, on the 3rd October, i'S93, about seventy feet from the ground, which contained 

 two recently hatched young. Writing me in March, 1907, Mr. Harnard remarks: — ".is/;/;' 

 vndidtns has entirely left this district ; I have not seen one for many years." 



The eggs are two in number for a sitting, almost globular in form, rather rough shelled, of 

 a uniform dull bluish-white, or lia\ing irregular-shaped smears and blotches of different shades 

 of brown scattered o\er the sliell, which is lustreless. Of the original set taken one is smeared 

 and blotched with brown ; the other is devoid of markings. They measure: — Lenj^th (A) 2-2 

 X i'S3 inches; (1.-;) 2-iiS x 1-83 inches. 



Immature birds resemble the adults, but ha\ e the feathers of the heacl and nape dark brown 

 with indistinct dull whity-brown margins, the feathers of the hack dark brown narrowly 

 edged with rufous; the throat dull white, mesially streaf:ed with black; upper breast 

 pale rufous with blackish central streaks ; lower breast, abdomen and under tail-coxerts white 

 washed here and there with rufous, haxing a narrow black shaft streak and terminating near the 

 end of each feather in a rufous spatulate spot, ^^'ing of female 1(1 inches. 



.•\ugust until the end of No\ember constitutes the breeding season of this species in I'2astern 

 Australia. 



Sub-family AQUILINiE. 

 Uroaetus audax. 



WKDiiE-T.i ILE L) E A (.; LE. 



Vnllur auiia.v, Lath., Ind. Oi'n., Siippl., p. 2 (bSOl). 



Aq/iilii fucosa, Gould, l^ds. Austr., fol. Vul. I., pi. 1 (is IS). 



Aijiiila aiida:i\ Gould, llandlik. Bils. Austr., Vol. I., p. S (IfSf)'!). 



UriiuHihs audax, Sharpe, (.':it. Bds. Brit. Mus,, Vol. I., p. 2;!1 (1S7I); id., Hand-I. Bds., Vol. IT., 

 p. 2G0 (1.S99). 



Adult M.\LE. — (jeiieral colour ahovr dark hraii'it, icilli smal! judi-r hrtiini. mnnjins and lips fo 

 tlie. featlmrs (if the linck , iiap)>, and Iitiidufck liylit cliPxtuHl-hruii-ii, pairr a/ thr Zips of llir. featliers ; 

 upper lail-coverts pair hroirn, pafuhi;/ nito liiijlipu-lnlr at tin' ti//s of sonu' of tin' louyrr feathers ; 

 •ihppir iriiiij-cui'i'rts dark liroirn, iiiari/iiird at their tips icilh pair tinnrn, 'In; les)<er series hariuq a 

 tmony-hroirn s/iaili' ((t their tips ,■ quills and lail-Jialhi'rs lilack : all thr nndrr surface dark hroivu, 

 some iij the feathers ml the fore-iK'ck ii'ith small pale liron-ii tips : nmhr tail -co rerts pale hroivnish- 

 iflrite : hill faint r/rei^isli-irhitfi, dull hi aish-hlark at the tip : skin in front ami around the ei/e hi aish- 



