The Queensland Naturalist. 
69 
April, 1922 
island a quarter of a mile in length.* 4 * Both Mr. Gould 
.and myself/' he added, “have seen nests of the same con- 
struction, the work of the large Fish Eagle of Australia." 
Macgillivray might have cleared the air still further by 
pointing out that the large nest was the accumulation of 
many years of nesting; Banfield has recorded an instance, 
in the same waters, of Ospreys occupying one site for at 
least twenty-five years. 
Looking (at sundown) from Dunk Island towards Tam o’ 
Shanter Point and Rockingham Bay, the most famous spot, 
ornithologically, in Queensland. 
L Photo by A. H. Chisholm. 
Rather more arresting than the foregoing matter is 
Banks's reference to the shyness of the birds of the strange 
wild country into which the intrepid Englishmen were 
dipping. “A Crow in England," he wrote, “though in 
general sufficiently wary, is, I must say, a fool to a New 
Holland Crow, and the same may be said of almost all, if 
not all, of the birds in the country. . . . What can be the 
reason of this extraordinary shyness in the birds is diffi- 
cult to say, unless perhaps the Indians are very clever in 
Macgillivray had visited Eagle Island. 
