THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
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, 3,007 feet above the level of the sea, and 
ninety-six miles west of Sydney. B. teesa, 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. Uventer, which occurs in Java and Timor, 
or B. indicus inhabiting Borneo, Sumatra, and the Philippines, I should not 
have been so much surprised at obtaining on the Australian Continent.” 
I would not recognise this as a record worth upholding without further 
specimens, as the improbability of an Indian bird reaching Lithgow is very 
great. Upon examination of the specimen, when I was recently in Sydney, 
I noted that there is no original label on, as would be surmised from North’s 
account above quoted, but on the label is written, apparently by North : 
“ Mr. Robert Grant informs me his brother shot this bird about three years 
ago at Lithgow, N.S.W.” 
In view of the discrepancy between this and the published account, 
without throwing any doubt upon the bona-fides of the two Grants, I consider 
that this record should be placed upon a hypothetical List to await 
confirmation, as recorded in the Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 106, 1914, 
written upon my return from Australia. 
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