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FALCONIDJE» 
markings, which in some places are confluent, not unfrequently 
being on the smaller end of the egg. Specimens received from 
Mr. Geo. Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, Queensland, in 1883, 
measure as follows, length (A) 1 *83 x 1'33 inch ; (B) 1 -8." x 1-34 
inch. 
Hah. Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson 
River, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West 
and South-West Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus HIERACIDEA, Gould. 
HIERAOIDEA ORIENTALIS, Schbiyel. 
(II. beriyora, Gray.) 
Brown Hawk. 
Gould, Handbk. /Ids. Aits/., Vol. i., sp. 11, p. 31. 
The Brown Hawk is without exception, the most common 
species of the Falconida* inhabiting New South Wales and 
Victoria. It builds its nest sometimes in the topmost branches 
of a Eucalyptus or Casuarina, or at other times within a 
few feet of the ground ; it is an open structure composed of 
sticks, lined with fine twigs, leaves, tic. The eggs are two to 
three in number for a sitting, and are very variable, both in their 
size and markings ; from a number of sets now before me, 1 give 
the description of two, which are of the most usual form. 
Var. (A). Eggs two in number, nearly oval in form, being 
slightly swollen at the larger end, of a warm reddish-white ground 
colour, minutely freckled, spotted, and blotched with rich reddish- 
brown, in some places these markings are confluent, on one specimen 
