WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE. 
four in thickness. The bird came from the nest on three occasions in three 
consecutive days, yet it contained no eggs while I was there. I have several 
times noted that both this species and Uroaetus audax sit on the nest before 
any eggs are laid, and cause disappointment upon climbing to it. The usual 
clutch of eggs is two, which are laid in the Mid-west towards the end of 
June or early in July. June 21, 1900 : took two eggs from a nest built on 
top of a large milk bush (or caustic bush) growing on a ledge of the vast cliffs 
of the Yardie Creek between Point Cloates and the North-west Cape. As 
usual when the eggs are taken, the nest was forsaken for that season and the 
birds took possession of a deserted nest of the Wedge-tailed Eagle further 
up the creek. On July 7, 1901, I took two eggs from a nest in the Yardie 
Creek cliffs : the nest was about 40 feet from the bed of the creek and was 
overhung by a great ledge so that it could not be approached from the top. 
On August 12, 1911, two eggs were taken by Mr. Chas. French (who bought 
Point Cloates Station, 1902) from a nest built on top of an old Osprey’s nest 
on the side of a shady cliff near Maud’s Landing. The total structure was a 
pile of sticks about 7 feet in height in an easily accessible place. I examined 
it on August 25, 1911, and Mr. French kindly presented me with the eggs. 
These birds will attack and kiU lambing ewes, but not often. On June 23, 
1896, I shot one at Point Cloates that had killed many lambs there. On 
different occasions birds in immature plumage attacked my poultry at Point 
Cloates, and once I saw one give chase to my tame Straw-necked Ibis there, 
but the latter easily evaded capture by flying, although the eagle chased it 
round the house two or three times. The ibis turned and doubled too 
quickly for the eagle. At Denmark, on the south coast, I saw an immense 
nest of this bird in a Karu tree growing near the beach of Wilson’s Inlet. 
About the North-west Cape they fed largely on sea-snakes and a species 
of conger-like eel that lived in the sea-rocks. On one occasion I examined 
one of the latter (or a sea-snake), about five feet in length and two inches 
diameter, that I saw one of these eagles drop on the beach.” 
Mr. C. G. Gibson noted them on the Abrolhos Islands, West Australia, in 
the Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 64, 1908 : “ White-beUied Sea-Eagle (Haliaetus 
leucogaster) had almost finished breeding. About eight nests were noted^ 
several with two large young almost able to fly, and others that the young 
birds had apparently just left. Nests built, as a rule, on the rocky 
promontories, and close to the water. Noted only on the Wallabis.” 
Hall’s notes in the Victorian Naturalist, Vol. XVIII., p. 165, 1902, read : 
“ Sea-Eagles came from their ocean feeding-grounds daily to a nest about 
two miles inland. It was situated some 150 feet from the ground in a large 
eucalypt, and to timid people seemed only to be got at by the wind. It was 
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