1920.] Western Australian Birds. 707 



Cuncuma leucogaster. 



White-bellied Se;i-Eagles were observed in several places 

 from Shark Bay to the North- West Cape. Some were also 

 seen at Augusta in March 1919. On 12 August, 1911, a 

 pair o£ eggs was taken from a nest which Ospreys had 

 originally built, not far from Maud's Landing. This nest 

 was fully six feet in height, on a pinnacle ol: rock. On 

 26 August, 1913, I saw young l)irds in a nest on a high cliff 

 at Yardie Creek, where these Eagles had reared their broods 

 for many years, when I resided at Point Cloates. On this 

 occasion 1 was taking a series oE photographs of the won- 

 derful creek, and several times, while standing on the edge 

 of a high cliff, one of the adult Eagles came swooping from 

 hehind me, almost touching me with the tip of its wing as 

 it passed. Al last I became annoyed with the bird, as its 

 actions might have led to a fatal accident, so shot it. It was 

 a female, and the same afternoon I saw the male brooding 

 over the young in the nest. On 26 June, 1916, 1 took two 

 incubated eggs from a nest built on the edge of a cliff some 

 miles south of Point Cloates, where these birds had nested 

 •for many years. When passing there on my return journey 

 on 19 August^ the same year, there was another pair of t-ggs 

 in the nest, also much inculjated. 



When staying with Mr. (Jampbell near the North-AVest 

 Cape in August 1916, he told me that he had several times 

 seen a wholly white Sea-Eagle in the Exmouth (nilf just 

 round the Cape. The aborigines also told me of it, giving 

 their own name for it, " Tantagee,^' and were very anxious 

 for me to shoot it, as being such a rarity. 



Haliastur Indus leucosternus. 



While-headed Sea-Eagles are common along the coast 

 from Carnarvon northwards, especially in the vicinity of 

 mangroves. The aboriginal name in the North- West Cape 

 district for this species is " Indee-narrangee." When at 

 Carnarvon in September 1913 I frequently saw a party of 

 four birds flying together, all in innnature plumage, but they 

 could hardly be one brood. On 1 August, 1916, I climbed 



