MATHEWS— Birds of North and North-West Australia. 35 



176. $ Length 16.3 24/6/86 — Irides brown, eyelash 

 and orbital space bluish-white, very slightly washed with yel- 

 low on the eyelash and at the interior corner; bill bluish horn 

 shading into dark brown at the tip, cere bluish white; legs 

 and feet bluish white. 



222, Length 17.3 3/7/86. 



240. 2 Length 18.9 13/7/86. 



240a. $ Length 17.1 30/8/86— Shot from a nest which 

 contained two eggs and a young in down. 



315. $ Length 16.7. 



113. Cerchneis cenchroides milligani. Dusky Nankeen 



Kestrel. Cerchneis cenchroides milligani — Mathews, Nov. 



Zool. Vol. XVIII., p. 253, 1912, Parry's Creek, North-west 



Australia. 



158. $ Length 12.5 20/6/86— Irides <dark brown; orbi- 

 tal space yellow; bill bluish, base and cere yellow; legs deep 

 yellow. 



305. $ Length 12.5 22/7/86— Irides brown, orbital 

 space yellowish white, brightest in front of the eye; bill 

 bluish black at the tip, becoming bluish horn on the culmen 

 and edge of the upper mandible, in front of the nostril yel- 

 lowish; lower mandible bluish horn at the tip, becoming yellow 

 at the base; legs and feet ochre. 



113. Pandion haeiaetus oristatus. White headed Orprey. 

 Buteo cristatus Vieillot Nouv. Diet. d'Hist, Nat. Vol. IV.. 



p. 481, 1816, Tasmania. 



427. ? 23/10/86— Irides yellow, eyelid dark brown, 

 orbital space with the skin of a leaden hue, bill black, cere, 

 gape, and basal portions of the lower mandible lead colour; 

 feet and legs white, terminal scales of toes with a brown 

 mark, claws black. 



When shot this bird had a garfish in the claws which 

 was still in position when brought in, the reverse of the outer 

 toe being well shown, the fish being held from four nearly 

 opposite points. 



114. Spiloglaux boobook mixta. Pallid Boobook Owl. 

 Ninox boobook mixta. — Mathews, Nov. Zool. Vol. XVIII. , 

 p. 255, 1912, Parry's Creek North-west Australia. 



324. S Length 11.5 28/7/86— Bill, upper mandible dark 

 brownish horn passing into bluish horn on the basal half of 

 the culmen, lower mandible bluish brown at the tip, becom- 

 ing bluish horn at the base, cere bluish slate. 



