LOPHOICTINIA — GYPOICTINIA. 11 



Genus LOPHOICTINIA, Kaup. 



^--s LOPHOICTINIA ISURA, ffowZd 



Square-tailed Kite. 

 Gould, liandbk. Bds. Aust , Vol. i., sp. 22, p. 51. JZE". 3. 9. 



Nest, of sticks and twigs rather loosely constructed, and lined 

 with a few Eucalyptus leaves, placed in a fork of some of the 

 higher branches of the trees, or in the interior where the trees are 

 stunted and low, in any suitable branch that will bear its weight. 

 Eggs two to three in number, the ground colour white, on the 

 thicker end are blotches, smudges and scattered irregular spots of 

 reddish-brown or rusty-red, with minute dots here and there 

 sprinkled over the surface, frequently one egg in a set is blotched 

 at the thin end, some are more heavily and deeply marked than 

 others, one specimen is covered (more numerously at the thin end) 

 with irregular freckles only, in many places superimposed. Length 

 (A) 2-03 X 1-57 ; (B) 1-97 x 1-76 ; (C) 2-06 x 1-67 inches. {Mus. 

 Bohr. P.L.S., N.S. W., Vol, vii., p. 53, Ramsay.) 



Hah. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and 

 Clarence River Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria 

 and South Australia, W. and S.W. Australia. (Ramsay.) 



Genus GYPOICTINIA, Kaup. 



t GYPOICTINIA MELANOSTERNON, Gould. 



Black-breasted Buzzard. 

 Gould, Hamdhh. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 20, p. 47. "^^ 3. f. 



Respecting the nidification and habits of this species Mr. K. 

 H. Bennett writes as follows :— 



" The range of this bird — so far as my experience goes — is 

 confined to the plains which border the banks of the Murrumbidgee 

 and Lachlan Rivers, and the wide expanse of open country on 

 the north bank of the latter stream appears to be its especial 



