HALI.V.TUS. 



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In liastern Australia nests with eggs may be usually found in August, September, October 

 and sometimes as late as November, Mr. E. H. Lane sending me a note of a set of eggs in his 

 collection taken in the Mossgiel District on the 4th November, 1910, and young birds in 

 December, January and I'ebruary. 



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Haliaetus leucogaster. 



will I'K-liKLLIED SEA-EA(^LE. 

 F'(/r,, /,',iciM/i(s(er, Gnu'L, Sysf Nat., loin. 1., p. 257 (1788, ex. Latli). 

 Irhlhyiaitax l''nco<i('<tP,\ Gould, Bd.s. Au.str., fol. Vol. I., pi. :5 (Ib-iS). 

 I'olloiKrus l.-ncf/ns'T, (iould, Handlik. Bds. Austr., Vol. I., p. 1.3 (18(1.">). 



llfdiarlns Iriirogastfi; Sharpe, Oat. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. 1., p. :i07 (1S74); ;'-/., Iland-I. Bds,, 

 I., p lTw (1S9!I). 



Adcli' m.ale. — Till- ''iilii-i hrixil ati.il n.'xk all round, and all tin- nudi-r surfac,'' and under tail- 

 cocerU u-liile \ uinn'r surfnc" nf li,,dy and ii-iu(/s dark grey, irith a broirnisli ivash : tail feathers 

 brownish-hlaek-, the lennlital third irhilr : bill bluishdwrii colour and. blackish at the tip of llie upper 

 mandible; cere and lores lead eoluar ; leys pale yreyish-whit.e, passing into yellowish-U)hite on the 

 feet : iris hroaui. Total 1,'nijth iit the Jlexj, .',!) inches, wiin/ :.'/■■->, tail 10-7o, bill ;?, tarsns Jf. 



Adult FKM.^r.K. Snndar ill ptuinii'ie I., ihf inal<; but s/iijhtly lanjer. Winy .'.^ inches. 



Z)i.s//-J/(((//o)«.— North-western .\uslralia, Northern Territory of South .Australia, Queensland, 

 New South Wales, Victoria, South .\ustralia. Western .Vustralia, Tasmania. 



|(^ 1 1 1'^ White-bellied Sea-Eagle 

 ii, found at intervals all 

 along the coast-line of Australia 

 and Tasmania, frequenting the bays, 

 inlets and estuaries of rivers. It is 

 not, however, confined to the sea- 

 board, for it frequents ri\ers, lakes, 

 and watercourses far inland, being 

 found on the Darling River, at 

 Bourke. New South Wales, o\er 

 five hundred miles trom the coast. 

 A fine specimen was also received 

 by the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum from the Bogan River, 

 where it was nesting. Gould 

 remarks: — "Unless disturbed or 

 harassed, the White-bellied Sea- 

 Eagle does not shun the abode of 

 man, but becomes fearless and 

 familiar. .Among the numerous 

 places in which 1 observed it in 

 1839 was the Cove of Sydney, where 

 one or two were daily seen perform- 

 ing their aerial gyrations above the 

 wnri K iiKi.i.iKi) SK.\-K.\GLK. shipping and over the tops of the 



