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Sub-Family AQUILINE. 



Genus UROAETUS, Kaup. 



Uroaetus audax (Lath.). 



Aquila fucosa, Ramsay, Ibis, 1863, p. 446. 



Aquila audax, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 8 (1865) ; North, Nests 



$ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 5, pi. i. fig. 1 (1889). 

 Uroaetus audax, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 231 (1874) ; id Hand-l 



i. p. 260 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 6 (1899) ; Campbell, 



Nests # Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 11, pi. i. (1901). 



The eggs of the Wedge-tailed Eagle are either elliptical or of a 

 broad oval shape. The shell is rough and has little or no gloss. 

 They are of various types of coloration. In one the eggs are 

 yellowish white, either plain or maiked with a few dark rufous 

 spots. In another they are white or cream-coloured, marked all over 

 with spots and small blotches of chocolate-brown, yellowish brown, 

 and underlying neutral-tint. In a third they are buff, boldly 

 smeared and blotched with reddish brown and purplish grey. They 

 measure from 2-65 to 3'2in length, and from 2-1 to 2-35 in breadth. 



1. New South Wales, 5th Dec. Crowley Bequest. 



1. New South W r ales, 12th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Balala, N.S.W. (E. L. Layard). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Queensland. .). B. White, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Dawson River, Queensland (North Crowlev Bequest. 



Coll.). 



1. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. Milang, near Adelaide, S. Australia, E. S. Moulden, Esq. [P.]. 



9th July. 



1. Australia. Gould Coll. 



2. Tasmania. Gould Coll. 



2. Table Cape, Tasmania (A. I). Crowley Bequest. 

 Atkinson). 



Genus AQUILA., Briss. 

 Aquila chrysaetus (Linn.). 



Falco chrysae'tus et Falco fulvus, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlviii. 

 (1845-54). 



Aquila chrysae'tus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 17. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 

 Heioitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 8, pi. iii., pi. iv. fig. i (1856); 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 180; Tristram, Ibis, 1859, p. 283; Newton, 

 Ooth. Woll. pt. i. p. 8, pi. ii. figs. 1-4, pi. iii. figs. 1-4, pi. iv. figs. 1-4 

 (1864); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 235 (J874) : Danford, Ibis, 

 1878, p. 4 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 533 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 i. p. 96, pi. 2 (1883) ; id. Birds Japan. Emp. p. 199 (1890) ; Gates 

 ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 130 (1890) ; Bendire, 

 Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 263, pi. ix. figs. 3 & 5 (1892); 

 Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 14, pi. 2. fig. 4 (1896); Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. i. p. 261 (1899). 



The eggs of the Golden Eagle are broadly oval, elliptical or 

 spheroidal in shape, and the shell is rough and devoid of gloss. The 



