A LIST OF THE BIRDS FOUND IN THE COUNTY OF 
CUMBERLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES. 
By a. J. North, F.L.S. 
The County of Cumberland is about sixty-three miles long 
by forty miles wide, contains an area of 914,880 acres, and 
exhibits an avi-fauna as varied as its flora and geological features. 
The dense scrubs of the coast here attract many stragglers from 
both the northern and southern colonies, and the whole avi-fauna 
exhibits most of the characteristic forms for which Australia is 
so notably peculiar. 
It is bounded on the north by the Hawkesbury River, west 
and south by the Nepean and Cataract Rivers, and on the east 
by the Pacific Ocean. 
This list has been compiled mostly from specimens that have 
come under my notice during the last two years, many of which 
have been sent as donations to the Australian Museum. The 
numbers refer to Dr. Ramsay’s “ Tabular List of Australian 
Birds (1888),” to which I would refer anyone wishing to obtain 
a knowledge of the range of the species over the Australian 
Continent. 
1. Circus assimilis, Jard. & Sdhy. 
2. Circus gouldi, Bonap. 
3. Astur cinbreus, Vieill. 
6. Astur approximans, Viy. & Horsj, 
9. Accipiter cirrhocepiialus, VieAll. 
10. Aquila audax. Lath. 
12. Halletus leucogaster, Oinel. 
14. Haliastur sphenurus, VieiH. 
\o. Milvus affinis, Go'<dd. 
21. Falco .melanogenys, 6'omW. 
24. Falco lunulatus, Lath. 
26. Hieraodea oriextalis, Hchln(j. 
