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F. 69. PANDIONIDAE (1), OSPREYS. 6 sp.— 3(0)A., 
5(1)0., 1(0)P., 1(0)E., l(0)Nc., 1(0)N1. 
1 174 White-headed Osprey, Fish Hawk, Pandion leucoce- 
3 phalus, Mol., N.G., A., T. =vt. cos. bird. 
Stat. r. shores 23 
Crown, hind-neck, throat, abdomen, under tail white; 
upper dark-brown; chest mottled brown; side-neck dark- 
brown, marked white; wing-quills black; dives; f., 
Sim. Fish. 
birds eat living fish, which they catch by plunging into the sea. 
Occasionally they drive their talons into too big a fish, and, not 
being able to withdraw them, are drowned. 
Flinders, in his journal, wrote about the enormous nests he 
met on rocky points, and considered they were built by a great 
"Dinornis." 
The Osprey and the White-bellied Sea Eagle, however, build on 
rocky points if no trees are available, and add to the nest each 
year. It is interesting to read in the Western Australian Year 
Book article on birds that the Government has placed an Osprey's 
nest in the cave district, "under the protection of the Cave War- 
den.** A pleasing interest is growing in Australian nature in its 
many forms. 
Just as the Diurnal Birds of Prey (e.g., Hawks) are closely 
related to those of the Northern Hemisphere, so are the Nocturnal 
Birds of Prey (Owls) very closely related to those of the Old 
