t if it more than six feet from the ground. In each were either two voung hirds or two eggs of an 

 elongated oval shape, pointed at both ends; colour, very pale green. Length, I inch 1\ lines; breadth, 1 

 inch '.\ lines. 



Head and tuft beneath the eve, black; neck and all under surfaces, mouse-grey, with a vinous 

 tinge that becomes more apparent on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; primated feathers of the back, 

 bluish -grey with lighter shafts; wing coverts, dark slate-grey, narrowly margined with white and buff; 

 remainder of the wings and tail, dark grey: hides, light yellow; orbits and eyelash, gamboge yellow; upper 

 mandible and cutting edge of the lower mandible, dark reddish-brown; the remainder of the lower mandible, 

 oil-green ; tibia 1 and hinder part of the tarsi, bright yellow ; remainder of the feet and legs, yellowish- 

 bn >wn. 



Total length, 14 inches. 



The young have all the upper surfaces brown, and triangular spots of white at the tip of all the 

 wing feathers ; the throat striated with brown on a white ground. 



Habitats: Porl Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria; Cape York, Rockingham Bay, 

 Porl Denison, Wide Bay District; Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales ; south coast 

 of New Guinea. 



