MATHEWS— Birds nf North and North-West Australia. 15 



No . 67— 5 . Length, 16 inches (30/5/86). 



Irides light yellow, eyelids yellow, bill black, cere green- 

 ish yellow; feet dull yellow. 



No. 413— 5 . Length, 11.7 inches (19/10/86). 



No. 475— 5 . Length, 12 inches (29/10/86). 



Irides fine vellow, becoming orange on the outer circle, 

 eyelid dull yellow, with a fine black line next the eye; bill 

 with culmen and apical half of mandible black, remainder 

 bluish horn, cere and gape dirty yellowish green; tarsi dull 

 yellow tinged with brown on the sides, feet orange. 



105. TJroaetus audax cartbri. Western Wedge-tailed Eagle. 



Aquila audax carter i (Mathews). Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 

 p. 247, 1912. West Australia. 



No. 307— 5 . Length 3 feet (24/7/86). 



Wing from tip to tip 6 feet 7-| inches, weight eight and 

 a half pounds. Irides grey, becoming brown round the pupil; 

 bill, upper mandible black at the tip, becoming bluish horn, 

 then passing into yellowish white at the base, lower mandible 

 bluish horn at tip white for the remainder, but tinged with 

 blue at the base, cere dirty yellow, skin on the lores bluish 

 flesh colour; feet white. 



107. Haliaster indus leucosternus. White-headed Sea 

 Eagle. 



Haliaetus leucosternus (Gould). Synops. Birds of Austr. 

 Pt. III., pi. 40, 1838. New South Wales. 



No . 336— 9 . Length, 18.5 inches (17/9/86). 



Irides brown; bill bluish horn becoming whitish towards 

 the tip, cere lead colour; legs and feet yellowish white; claws 

 black. 



No. 453— S . Length, 18 inches (27/10/86). 



Irides brown; bill whitish horn tinged with yellow and 

 passing into leaden blue at the base and gape, cere light 

 leaden brown; legs and feet pale yellowish white. 



