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tail-coverts of a bluish slate-grey. The irides in both sexes are of a 

 beautiful deep yellow. 



I was fortunate enough to procure three eggs of this species, taken 

 by Mr. MacGiUivray's black fellow " Daddy." Mr. MacGillivray 

 informs me that, when Daddy was taking the eggs, the female dashed 

 so close to him that he killed it with his tomahawk. The male bird 

 belonging to the nest had been shot the day before. The nest was 

 a comparatively small structure of sticks placed upon a horizontal 

 bough, at a considerable distance from the ground. It contained 

 three eggs, much smaller than I expected to find them. They have 

 the peculiarity of being very much rounded at the larger end, are 

 short upon the whole, and have the thin end pointed abruptly. 

 Their average length is ly^^;^ inch by Ij^ inch in breadth; the 

 ground-colour greenish white (the inside of the shell being of a pale 

 steel-green), very sparingly smeared and blotched or spotted with 

 light bri)wn; one specimen has but two or three spots of alight 

 brownish tint. 



I know of no districts frequented by so many species of the Hawk- 

 tribe as the brushes and flats in the neighbourhood of the Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers. During the first fifteen days of our sojourn in 

 those parts we met with no less than fifteen species, well identified, 

 besides one or two others, the species of which I was not quite sure 

 of. Seven of these were skinned; others, being very common in the 

 neighbourhood, were allowed to remain in peace. The following is 

 the list of Hawks met with during our journey from the mouth of 

 the Clarence River, via Grafton, to Lismore on the Richmond 

 River : — 



Aquila audax. Plentiful. 



Poliouetus leucogaster. Several pairs seen. 



Hallastur sphenurus. Shot. 



leucosternus. Only one seen. 



Faico lunulatus. Shot. 



Hieracidea herigora. Shot. 



Leucospiza novce-hollandice. Shot (iris blood- red). 



Astur radiatus. Shot (iris bright yellow). 



approximans. Shot. 



Accipiter torquatus. Shot. 



Milvus affinis. Several seen. 



Elanus axillaris. Shot (iris blood-red). 



Baza subcristata. Shot (iris bright yellow). 



Circus jar dinii. Shot. 



assimilis. Two specimens seen. 



To these may be added Milvus isurus, Falco inelanogenys, and 

 Gypoictinia melanosternon, all of which, I believe, were procured by 

 Mr. MacGillivray in the Clarence River district. Oi Astur radiatus 

 I only obtained one specimen, a male ; it seems to be a very rare 

 species, and one which I had never before met with. Total length 

 23 inches. This specimen lost its life by coming too near our camp 

 in pursuit of some Parrakeets {TrichngJossns midticolor), which it 



