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among a bunch of small reeds, never more than two feet from the 

 ground. Its eggs are very beautiful ; they are from three to six 

 in number, seldom more than four, of a beautiful pink, with a 

 zone of darker red near the larger end, and in shape and colour 

 resemble some of the Prm««-group of India and China. 



[To be continued.] 



VI. — List of Birds received from Port Denison, Queensland. 

 By Edward P. Ramsay. 



I BEG leave to forward a list of birds collected at Port Deni- 

 son*, Queensland, by Mr. Rainbird, who has lately returned 

 thence to Sydney, bringing with him a large number of I'are 

 birds' skins. Many of the specimens are still in my own col- 

 lection, others in that of the Sydney Museum ; and a list of them 

 may throw some further light on the distribution of species. 



1. Aquila fucosa (Gould, B. Austral, i. pi. 1). 



2. ICHTHY^TUS LEUCOGASTER (Gould, i. pi. 3). 



3. Haliastur leucosteknus (Gould, i. pi. 4). 



For all the information I at present possess respecting the 

 nidification of this interesting species I am indebted to Mr. 

 Rainbird. The nest of the Red-winged Fish-Hawk is by no 

 means so bulky a structure as that of many of its allies, nor is 

 it so large as one would expect from a member of the family to 

 which it belongs. In almost every instance the examples 

 found by Mr. Rainbird were placed near the tops of the larger 

 trees in belts of mangroves skirting the edges of salt-water 

 swamps and marshes in the neighbourhood of Port Denison. 

 They were composed of twigs and dead branches of mangrove, 

 lined with a finer material. One, from which that gentleman 

 shot the bird, and brought me the egg upon which she was sitting, 

 was lined with tufts of lichen; and in this instance the egg was 

 placed upon various fish-bones, shells and claws of crabs, &c.; 

 the edges and sides were beautifully ornamented with long 



* Port Denison is nearly in lat. 20° S., long. 148° E. of Greenwich. — Ed. 



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