BLACK-CHEEKED FALCON i6i 
distance from any place where it would be likely 
that they should breed. 
Mr. Mulder has a specimen in his collection which 
was shot near the Ballarat Road. It was eating a 
rabbit at the time, and so courageous was it that 
even when wounded it still kept its hold on its quarry, 
while vigorously attacking the man who had shot it. 
In plumage this Falcon is blackish brown above, 
belly buffy-white with close narrow bars, breast 
cream-coloured striped with black, throat cream- 
coloured. 
BROWN HAWK 
leracidea berigora berigora 
Our commonest bird of prey, the Brown Hawk, will 
be familiar to every one who has happened to look 
much out of the carriage windows on the train journey 
from Geelong to Melbourne. For it is very common 
from Lara to Laverton, and has the habit of perching 
on the telegraph posts and wires, no doubt as a point 
of vantage wherefrom to swoop down upon the mice, 
lizards, or insects which form its staple diet. In 
colour it is brown, with buff breast streaked with fine 
longitudinal markings of brown, nor is it likely to be 
mistaken for any other Hawk, since its flight is slow 
as compared with that of others of similar size. The 
cry of the Brown Hawk is most frequently heard in 
the months of August and September, when at the 
mating-time both birds will go through prolonged 
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