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Measurements of averaged-sized specimens from different localities. 



A. 1 $ ad. sk. 

 A. 2 2 ,, mntd. 

 A. 3 ^ ad. sk. 

 A. 4 <? „ „ 

 C. 1 9 juv. sk. 



Wide Bay, Queensland. 

 New South Wales. 

 Ouse Eiver, Tasmania. 

 New South Wales. 

 Wide Bay, Queensland. 



Col. 

 Pres. 



Col. 



Pres. 



Col. 



6. NISAETUS. 



1. Nisaetus morphnoides. 



The Little Eagle. 

 Aquila morphnoides, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p. 161 ; id. Bdx. 



Avstr., vol. i, pi. 2 (1848); Bonaj). Consp. Av., torn, i, p. 14 



(1850); Strickl., Orn. Si/n., p. 62 (1855); Grai/, Hand-list Bds., 



vol. 1, p. 12 (1869); Bennett, Ibis, 1884, p. 465; Broadb., Proc. 



Roy. Soc, Queensld., vol. iii, p. 24 (1887) ; id. op. cit., vol. v, p. 



14 (1889) ; North, Nests and Eggs, Austr. Bds., p. 6, pi. ii, fig. 1 



(1889) ; Sharpe, Index Goidd's Works, p. 17 (1893) ; Keartl., Vict. 



Nat., vol. xiii, p. 60 [Centr. Austr.,. 1896). 

 Butaetus morphnoides, Blyth, Joiirn. As. Soc. Beng., vol. xiv, p. 546 



(1845). 

 Hieraetus cristatus, Blijth, Journ. As. Soc. Beng., vol. xv, p. 4 (1846), 

 Hieraetus morphnoides, Katq?, Isis, 1847, p. 243 ; Gould, Handhk. Bds. 



Austr., vol. i, p. 11, sp. 2 (1865). 

 Nisaetus morphnoides, Sharpe, Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 254 



(1874); id. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 338; Gurmy, Ibis, 1877, p. 



419, id. op. rit. 1882, p. 454 ; id. List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 53 



(1884) ; Gurney,jun., Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 23 (1894). 

 Aquila (Nisaetus) morphnoides, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., 



vol. ii, p. 177 (1877) ; id. Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. i, (1888). 



Adults. Both the male and the female vary considerably, both 

 in size and in the intensity of the colouring and tints, in some the 

 prevailing colour below being rufous brown, in others buff or white. 



