ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES — NORTH. 
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The following is a list of the birds recorded up to date, that 
frequent these atolls, brought so much into prominence by the 
recent coral-boring expeditions 
Some time ago Mr. Richard Grant of Lithgow, presented a skin 
of Butastur teesa to the Trustees, accompanied by the following 
note : “ With regard to this Hawk, I shot it in a ring-barked 
tree, near the Bowenfels road, Lithgow. I do not know the 
exact date, but as near as I can remember it was in November 
1889. I skinned it, also some Brown Hawks, that I shot the 
same day, and partly filled the skins out and put them away. I 
took no further notice of them until my brother returned home 
and drew my attention to this bird’s plumage.” Lithgow is 
situated in a valley of the Blue Mountains, 3007 feet above the 
level of the sea, and 96 miles west of Sydney. Butastur teem, 
the White-eyed Buzzard Eagle is very abundant in some parts of 
India, which is the habitat of this species, but I can find no record 
of its having been obtained on any of the islands lying between 
India and Australia. B. livenler , which occurs in Java and Timor, 
or B. indicus , inhabiting Borneo, Sumatra, and the Phillipines, I 
should not have been so much surprised at obtaining on the 
Australian continent. The specimen of B. teesa procured at 
Lithgow, is similar to others in the collection from India, except 
in showing very little trace of the white mott lings on the wing- 
coverts. It is not in full adult plumage, for the sides of the 
throat and the spots on the breast are white instead of yellowish- 
white, otherwise it agrees with the description of the adult female 
given by Dr. Sharpef in the “ Catalogue of Birds in the British 
Museum.” 
VI.— On a LIVING EXAMPLE op PSEP1IOTUS CIIRY- 
Regarding this species, Gould, who described it, writes in his 
Handbook to the Birds of Australia,! as follows: — “One of the 
* On the authority of Mr. Gardiner, 
f Sharpe — Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., i., p. 295, (1874). 
I Gould, Handbk. Bds. Aust., ii., p. 65 (1865). 
U rodynamis taitensis 
Fregata aquila 
Demieyretta sacra 
Globicera pacifica 
* Carpophaga pistrinaria 
Charadrius fulvus 
Totanus incanus 
Numenins tahitensis 
S\ trepsi las it iter pres 
Lirnosa novcB-zealandice 
A nous stolidus 
Micranou s l e ucocap i llus 
Procelsterna ccerulea 
IS ter 7 ta ammtheta 
Sterna melanauchen 
Gygis Candida 
V. — On the OCCURRENCE op BUTASTUR TEESA jn 
AUSTRALIA. 
