380 APPENDIX. 



ASTUR RADIATUS, Latliam. 



Radiated Gosha^wrk. _^ 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 16, p. 40. ~^ 



In 1883 Mr. George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, Dawson 

 River, Queensland, obtained a nest of this species in a lofty 

 Eucalyptus, locally known as the " Moreton Bay Ash," the nest 

 was about thirty feet from the ground, and was similar to that of 

 A. approximans, a large structure composed of sticks, lined inside 

 with finer ones and Eucalyptus leaves, and contained two eggs, one 

 of which was forwarded to Dr. Ramsay, and described by him in 

 the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of N.S.W.* Mr. Barnard 

 has since forwarded to me the other egg for description, it is rounded 

 in form, and is of a uniform dull bluish-white, but unlike the one 

 previously sent, it is entirely free from smears and blotches of 

 blackish-brown; length 2-18 inch; breadth 1-83 inch. 



Mr. Barnard informs me that his sons obtained another nest on 

 the 27th of August, 1889, "built on a flat fork of a projecting 

 limb of a lofty Eucalyptus citriodora, at least fifty feet from the 

 ground, the eggs of which, two in number have a decided bluish 

 tinge." In a subsequent letter Mr. Barnard writes as follows : — 

 " A rather singular occurrence took place about the Radiated 

 Goshawk's nest, when my sons found it there were two eggs in 

 it, and one of them shot the male ; about a month after being 

 up that way again, one of them climbed the tree and found another 

 egg in the nest, laid after the first eggs were taken and the male 

 bird shot.'' 



Hab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 

 River Districts, New South Wales, Interior. (Ramsay.) 



MILVUS AFFINIS, Gould. 



Allied Kite. __^ 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Aust, Vol. i., sp. 21, p. 49. "^^ 



Mr. K. H. Bennett, of Yandembah, New South Wales, has 

 kindly communicated the following notes relative to the nidifica- 

 tion of this species : — 



*P.L.S., N.S.W., 2nd Ser., Vol. i., p. 1141, 

 Z— Appendix n. 



