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as not likely to be found again in this district. Mr. 
Mulder has a specimen in his collection which was 
shot at Cape Otway, and he tells me that he once 
followed a Sea-eagle for miles along the Lower 
Barwon. In twenty-five years I have never met an 
example of it here ; indeed, the only two I was ever 
fortunate enough to see in the wild state were on the 
Parramatta River in 1897, and in the Furneaux 
Group, Bass Straits, in 1901, respectively. 
I have always entertained the notion that Eagle 
Rock, at Airey's Inlet (Eagle's Nest Rest one sees it 
on some of the old charts), is so called from having 
once been the nesting-place of this Eagle ; the only 
other Eagle, the Wedge-tailed, would not make 
its nest on a bare rock as this species does. But I 
have been able to get no particulars of the reason for 
the original giving of the name. 
WHISTLING EAGLE 
Haliastur sphenurus 
A LARGE, heavy-flying Hawk, maintaining a much 
greater average height in the air than do most of 
his fellows, and identifiable even when very far up 
by an appearance of raggedness about the tips of his 
slightly upturned wings, this is one of our commoner 
birds of prey. Many times, even within the past 
few years, I have seen one soaring high over the town 
itself, and there is no part of the district whither 
he does not wander upon occasion, especially in the 
