"08 Mr. T. Carter on some [Ibis, 



to a nest about twenty-five feet above the water, in a large 

 dead inano-rove-tree a little south of the North-West Cape. 

 The nest was bulkj^ and made entirely of .*ticks, lined witli 

 small twigs. It contained cue egg, much incubated. 



Haliastur sphenurus. 



The Whistling E:igle is fairly common about the Lower 

 Swan River, but is not ol'ten seen south of that district. In 

 the Gascoyne and more northern areas it is numerous, and 

 was particularly so about the Minilya River in September 

 IDlOj where it was flying about in small flocks of twelve 

 to twenty in number. It also was connnonly seen tliere in 

 September IDil, and was rather a nuisance at times, as on 

 one occasion when I had shot a pair of Stilts {Himantopiis 

 leucocephalus) at a pool, a Whistling Eagle swooped down 

 in front of me, and with its feet picked one of the dead 

 birds off the surface of the water within a few yards of me. 

 Another diiy I shot an Emu at the same pool- and roughly 

 skinned it. As I was carrying the skin on my shoulders, 

 several of these Eagles followed me and kept making swoops 

 down at it until I shot one of them. [Recorded in " Food 

 of Diurnal Birds of Prey,'" Emu, vol. xviii. p. 9o.] 



Elanus notatus parryi. 



Two Black-shouldered Kites were seen at a pool near the 

 Minilya River on 1 September, 1916. Mr. McLeod told 

 me that these birds had been verj^ numerous there a few 

 weeks before that date. 



Falco longipennis murchisonianus. 



Several Murchison Little Falcons were seen about Lake 

 Muir in March 1919. They are more plentiful there than 

 in any other locality I have visited. 



leracidea berigora occidentalis. 



Brown Hawks are by far the commonest birds- of -prey in 

 Western Australia, and were seen daily. I shot one at Lake 

 Muir on 21 January, 1916, that apparently had designs on 



