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on Kaiii^arou Island, South Austi.ilia, in August, iSy2, measures: — Len.i^th (A) 2"76 x 2'i7 

 inches; (JJ) 2-72 x 2-14 inches. A set of two received from Mr. George Savidge, and taken at 

 Broadwater, on the Upper Clarence Kiver, New South Wales, on the 17th |uly, 1S97, measures : — 

 Length (A) 2'93 x 2-23 inches; (1!) 3-25 x 2-24 inches; the former egg of this set is represented on 

 F'late I!. X\'II., figure 1. A set of two taken on the 2nd October, 1892, by J\Ir. E. D.Atkinson, 

 on Walker's Island, ofl tlie north-western coast of 'I'asmania, measures : — Length (A) 2^93 x 2'2 

 inches; (B) 2^93 x 2-22 inches. A set of two taken at Middle Harbour, Sydney, measures: — 

 Length (A) 2-S x 2-17 inches; (B) 2-82 x 2-2 inches. 



Young birds are brown above with brownish-white tips to the feathers, the nape and hind 

 neck tipped or margined with tawny-brown ; rump darker brown with l<irL;er whitish tips; the 

 longer upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dull dingy-white, the latter tipped with brown, 

 more largely on the outermost feathers on either side, which are again narrowly edged at the 

 tip with brownish-white ; throat buff, remainder of the under surface rufescent-brown with buffy- 

 white centres or tips, paler on the lower breast and abdomen, where many of the feathers are 



buffy-white indistinctly mottled with pale 











rufescent-brown ; thighs pale rufescent- 

 brown ; under tail-coverts pale bulfy- 

 white. Wing of male slightly e.xceeding 

 that of the adult, 22 inches. Semi-adult 

 birds resemble the adults, but are duller 

 in colour, and have the feathers on the 

 crown of the head, hind neck and fore- 

 neck more or less marked with tawny- 

 brown, and the white feathers of the under 

 parts washed with buff; the upper parts 

 are browner, am! the entire tail-feathers 

 are dingy-white with a few indistinct 

 brown mottlings. Some apparently adult 

 birds have the lesser upper wing-coverts 

 margined with white at the tips, and the 

 shafts of the feathers on the crown of the 

 head, nape, hind neck and the breast black. 



Mr. Chas. (j. Gibson has sent me the 

 following note respecting the photograph 

 of the young White-bellied Sea-Eagle, which is here reproduced: — " White-bellied Sea-Eagles' 

 (Ilaluhins l(-iici[L;inti'r ) nests were noted only on the Wallabi Islands, four or five being seen. 

 Unlike those of the Osprey they were placed on rocky points right at the water's edge; the 

 nests are more roughly made than those of the Osprey, and are not so picturesque. They are 

 composed entirely of sticks and branches of the brush and mangrove growing on the islands, 

 and contain none of the odds and ends so characteristic of the Osprey's nests. Nests are almost 

 flat on top, and no ' lining ' of any description is used. In every case, except one, the young 

 birds (one or two) were able to fly from the nests. In the photograph a single young bird 

 occupied the new nest, which was built beside the old one. It was taken on East Wallabi 

 Island, 17th November, 1907." 



The breeding season varies in the different States, Mr. H. G. Barnard taking eggs in 

 Queensland in June, and Mr. G. Savidge in June and July in Northern New South Wales. 

 Near Sydney eggs have been taken in August, and the late Mr. Ralph Hargraves also obtained 

 them in the same month, in the southern part of the State. In North-western Australia Mr. 

 Tom Carter took several sets of eggs in July, and on one of the Wallabi Islands, Houtmann's 



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