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houses; if I mistake not, they were the same pair of birds that found a safe retreat in Eliza-eth 

 Bay, skirting the property of Alexander Macleay, lisq., where they might be frequently seen 

 perched on the bare limb of a tree by the water's edge, forming an interesting and ornamental 

 addition to the scene. . . . Whether as a result of the progress of civilization and the destructive 

 hand of man, this line bird has lieen extirpated from the precincts of the great city of Sydney, 

 and similarly populous places, is for the present race of Australians to say; in all probability 

 this to a certain extent has been the case; still the bird will hold its own in other parts of the 

 colony for a long time to come ; yet (audit is pitiable to contemplate such a contingency) a 

 period will doubtless arrive when the bays and inlets of the southern coasts of Australia will no 

 longer be adorned by the presence of this elegant species." As seventy-two years have elapsed 

 since Gould noted this species in the Cove of Sydney, it is interesting to record that the White- 

 bellied Sea-Eagle still occurs in I'ort Jackson, althou-h it is not nearly so frequently seen 





MIDDLE HARBOUR, NKAR ROSKVILLE PARK, A HAUN'T OF THK WH ITE-BELLIKD SKA-EAGLE. 



as it was ten years ago. On the upper parts of Middle Harbour, an arm of Port Jackson, and 

 about seven miles from Sydney, I have often seen these birds while fishing, and a pair have 

 bred for many years near the head of this inlet. In former years a pair of birds used to breed 

 considerably lower down towards the entrance to Middle Harbour, but the tree they nested in was 

 cut down. There is a pair of immature birds in the Australian Museum Collection, obtained 

 in [anuary, 1S77, that were reared in this nest, and an adult male received from Dr. H. \\"ard, 

 procured in the same locality in May, 1891. There is also an adult female procured by Mr. 

 Jdhii Ivamsay, at Dobroyde, in 1864. 



(Jf specimens in the collection obtained in other localities some distance from Sydney, is a 

 semi-adult female procured at Tuggerah Lakes, and a young male from Lake Macquarie. From 

 Queensland there are two specimens procured by Mr. George Masters at Wide Bay, in 1867, 



• Handbk, Bds. .\ustr , Vol I , pp 15-1G (1SC.3). 



