20 FALCONID.E. 



markings, which in some places are confluent, not unfrequently 

 being on the smaller end of the egg. Specimens received from 

 Mr. Geo. Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, Queensland, in 1883, 

 measure as follows, length (A) 1-8.3 x 1-33 inch ; (B) 1-8.5 x 1-34 

 inch. 



Ilab. Derby, N. W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 

 Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson 

 River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New Soutli 

 Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West 

 and South- West Australia. {Ramsay.) 



Genus HIERACIDEA, Gould. 



■2-'^ HIERACIDEA ORIENTALIS, Schlegel. • 



• (H. herigora, Gray.) 



Brown Ha-^k. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Au><t., Vol. i., sp. 11, p. 31. :M'. ^. 



The Brown Hawk is without exception, the most common 

 species of the Falconidte inhabiting New South Wales and 

 Victoria. It builds its nest sometimes in the topmost branches 

 of a Eucalyptus or Casuarina, or at other times within a 

 few feet of the ground ; it is an open structure composed of 

 sticks, lined with fine twigs, leaves, &c. The eggs are two to 

 three in number for a sitting, and are very variable, both in their 

 size and markings ; from a number of sets now before me, I give 

 the description of two, which are of the most usual form. 



Var. (A). Eggs two in number, nearly oval in form, being 

 slightly swollen at the larger end, of a warm reddish-white ground 

 colour, minutely freckled, spotted, and blotched with rich reddish- 

 brown, in some places these markings are confluent, on one specimen 



