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AIUS ALBOCINEHEUS (1), (lOuld. 



A small .species of Mua from the Murchison District. 



Tail, 3'72 inch ; liead and body, 3'25 inch. Tlie fur has a 

 brownish-grey tinge, the under-surface lighter coloured, feet and 

 lips whitish. 



It agrees approximately with the description of M. (,dho- 

 cineretis, Gould ; but in the present imperfect knowledge of the 

 Australian representatives of this group we cannot confidently 

 affirm that this specimen belongs to that species. 



AVES. 



This series consists of eighteen skins, two skeletons, eight nests 

 and sixteen eggs. 



We have throughout adopted the nomenclature of Dr. Ram- 

 say's " Talndai- List of Australian Birds." 



Aquila addax, Jxitlt. 



Victoria Desert. One specimen, apparently an old female. 

 Above and below, blackish-brown ; neck rufous, under tail-coverts 

 of a rusty tinge ; median wing and upper tail-coverts yellowish- 

 brown. Each feather is shaded with dark -brown in the centre. 



Two eggs (taken from the same nest in a Bloodwood-tree 

 ( E\icalyptihg tessellaris) between Camps 23 and 24 (Blytli Range) 

 show the usual markings of this species. One is smaller and 

 also much lighter-coloured than the other. 



Aquila mokphnoides, Gould 

 One egg, which we refer to this .species, was taken at Mt. 



Squires from a nest 

 not seen at the time. 



built 



Eucalyptus-tree. The bird 



HiERACIDEA BERK40RA, V. and 11. 



Three males (Barrow Range), and one female (Cavenagh 

 Range). These birds correspond most nearly with Mr. Sharpe's 

 description of the species in the British Museum Catalogue. 



Hieracidea orientalis, Schlegel. One female. Murchison 

 District. This specimen answers most nearly to the species 

 described under this name in the British Museum Catalogue. In 

 the South Australian Museum is the skin of a female shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Lake Albert, which conforms to the description 

 of //. herigora, while two of its young, taken from the nest at 

 the same time and kept until six months old, agree in all essential 

 particulars with the description of the young of H. orientalis. 

 Erom this fact, and from careful inspection of a large series of 

 birds from various localities which approximately answer to the 

 descriptions either of //. heriyora or of //. orientalis, it is 



