68 THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 
enjoyed the privilege of participating in this cruise as the Captain’s guest, and having 
manifested a special interest in this nest, a couple of blue-jackets were told off to 
scale the tree and to obtain all available data concerning its dimensions and present 
or recent tenancy. Not being the breeding season, the nest was then empty, but had 
evidently been tenanted the preceding year. Its diameter was found to be no less 
than twelve feet. 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo. 
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN OSPREY, Pandion leucocephalus, p. 67. 
