" FALCONIDJE. 



topmost branches of the larger Eucalypti, or placed at the end of 

 a leaning bough. The lower part of the nest is made of thick 

 sticks, smaller ones being used for the top, and the whole lined 

 with twigs and grasses. The first eggs I obtained were taken in 

 August, 1860, and were given to me by Mr. James Ramsay, at 

 Cardington, a station on the Bell River, near Molong. They 

 were taken from the nest by a black boy who had "stepped" the 

 tree. The nest was placed upon a fork near the end of 

 one of the main branches of a large Eucalyptus. It was 

 fully 70 feet from the ground, and no easy task to get to it. 

 The structure was about 3J feet high by 4 or 5 broad, and 

 about 18 inches deep, lined with tufts of grass and with down 

 and feathers plucked from the breasts of the birds, upon which 

 the eggs were placed. The eggs were two in number, nearly 

 round, and very thick and rough in the shell. One egg is 

 3 inches long by 2| broad ; the ground colour white, thickly 

 blotched and minutely freckled with nist-red, light yellowish 

 brown, and obselete spots of a lilac tint. The other egg is nearly 

 all white, having only a few blotches of light yellowish brown, 

 and some fine dots of light rust-red ; it is 2f inches in length by 

 2J in breadth." {Ihis, 1863, Vol. v., p. 446, Bamsay.) 



Two eggs of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 

 measure as follows : — length (A) 3'01 x 2-18 inches; (B) 3'02 x 

 2-22' inches. 



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

 Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson 

 River, Richmond and Clarence River District, New .South 

 Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, 

 W. and S.W. Australia. {JRamsay.) 



2. AQUILA MORPHNOIDES, Gould. 



Little Eagle. 

 Gould, Hcmdhk. Bds. AiJist., Vol. i., sp. 2, p. 11. TT, /. 



The nest of this Eagle is about the size of that of Corvus 

 eoronoides, and composed of similar materials, sticks and twigs. 



