16 PALOONIDiE. 



" I was fortunate enough to procure three eggs of this species, 

 taken by Mr. Macgillirray's blackfellow "Daddy." Mr. 

 Macgillivray informs me that, when Daddy was taking the eggs, 

 the female dashed so close to him that he killed it with his 

 tomahawk, The male bird belonging to the nest had been shot 

 the day before. The nest was a comparatively small structure of 

 sticks placed upon a horizontal bough, at a considerable distance 

 from the ground. It contained three eggs, much smaller than I 

 expected to find them. They have the peculiarity of being very 

 much rounded at the larger end, are short upon the whole, and 

 have the thin end pointed abruptly. Their average length is 1t%- 

 ^y 1-1*0" inch in breadth ; the ground colour greenish- white (the 

 inside of the shell being of a pale sea-green), very sparingly 

 smeared and blotched or spotted with light brown ; one specimen 

 has but two or three spots of a light brownish tint." {P.Z.S., 

 1867, p. 392, Ramsay). 



Mr. Geo. Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, has been successful in 

 taking sexeral nests of this species in the Dawson River 'District. 

 Two eggs received from him in 1884, measure as follows : — length 

 (A) 1-73 X 141 inch ; (B) 1-75 x 14 inch. 



Hab. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 

 Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond 

 and Clarence Rivers District, New South Wales. 



Genus FALCO, 



2-^. FALCO MELANOGENYS, GouU. 



Black-cheeked Falcon. 

 Gould, Eandhk. Bds. AusL, Vol. i., sp. 8, p. 26. 32C- 9. 



This species builds its nest upon the side of a cliff or precipitous 

 rock. Mr. K. H. Bennett found a nest of this species at Mount 

 Manara, in the Wilcannia District on the 9th September, 1885, 

 which contained three eggs, the nest was about 70 feet from the 



