Unlike the MUvus Ajffinis, it Hies very high, and sometimes very swiftly. The food consists 

 of birds, reptiles, and small Mammalia. 



October and November constitute the period of incubation, during which time two eggs are 

 laid in a nest constructed of sticks, lined with leaves and soft bark. The eggs, the length of 

 which is one inch and eleven lines, and the breadth one inch and seven lines, arc in colour huffy-white, 

 spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. 



The female is larger than the male, but does not differ in colouring. 



The head and ear-coverts are greyish-white, each feather marked in the centre and tipped with 

 black ; upper surface, dark brown ; wing feathers, dark brown, margined with light brown ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, white, crossed by bands of brown ; tail, brownish-grey, tipped with black, and crossed 

 by narrow lines of the same colour ; back and sides of the neck and under surface, fawn colour, the 

 leathers of the neck, chest, and flanks having a mark of black in the centre, and those of the 

 abdomen a faint line of reddish-brown ; tip of the bill, black ; base, greyish-white ; irides, dark red ; 

 feet, light yellow. 



Habitats : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and New Zealand. 



