6 FALOONID^. 



white down, except on the wings and tail, where black pin-feathers 

 mottled with rusty -brown appear ; a small patch of narrow 

 lanceolate feathers of dark rusty-brown on the base of the occiput; 

 the tips of a few black feathers also appear through the down ; 

 the sides of the chest, breast, and the outer sides of the thighs 

 and legs, and the upper and under tail-coverts i-usty. 



Nestlings, Reg. ISTos. B. 6422, and B. 6423. Taken from the same 

 nest, between tliree and four months old, have rufous featliers 

 tipped with down developing on the head, hind neck, chest, wing- 

 coverts, upper and under tail-covei'ts, primaries — as far as de- 

 veloped — black ; secondaries and coverts dark brown barred with 

 black ; tail blackish at the base barred with black and ashy-brown 

 towards the tip ; feathers of tiie lower part of the breast blackish- 

 brown tipped with fawn colour ; thighs and legs almost Ijlack 

 tipped with light browii. A second specimen, a female is of the 

 same dimensions and similarly marked. Total length 25"5 inches; 

 wing 14 inches; tail 7 "7 inches; tarsus 3 '9 inches; " iris clear light 

 brown ; bill horn colour at l)ase, remainder Ijlack ; cere bright 

 yellow ; feet yellowish, claws black, sex male. Mossgiel, Oetol)er 

 13th, 1884." 



Aquila morphnoides. 



The Little Eagle. 



Nestling, Reg. No. B. 6429. " Taken from the nest, December 

 24th, 1883, just hatched." Total length 3-5 inches; ))ill from fore- 

 liead 0"6 inch, from the gape 0-6o inch ; covered with creamy-white 

 down, erect and hairy upon the upper surface ; "eyes pale brown, 

 cere yellowish ; bill light horn colour ; feet flesh colour," 



Nestling, Reg. No. B. 10147. "Taken from the nest, November 

 5th, 1884, Mossgiel, New South Wales." Total length 4-5 inciies; 

 bill from forehead 0-85 inch, from gape 0-9 inch ; slightly larger 

 than the preceding ; colouring the same. " Eyes dark brown, cere 

 yellowish ; bill dark horn colour ; feet yellowish-white, claws light 

 horn colour." 



Nestling, Reg. No. B. 6427. "Taken from the nest December 

 7th, 1883, Mossgiel, Interior, N.S.W." Total length 97 inches; 

 wing 4-5 inches ; bill 1-2 inch, from gape 1'3 inch ; covered with 

 short white down below the head and the neck ; interscapular 

 region, scapulars, and the primaries blackish-brown ; upper wing- 

 coverts brown, tinged here and there with rufous-bi'own, the tips 

 of a fevv rufous pin-feathers showing upon the sides of the chest ; 

 *' Iris light brown, bill black, cere greenish ; feet yellowish-white, 

 claws black, bare space round the eyes dark lead colour." 



