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ground, and very difficult to obtain, being placed upon the face of 
an almost perpendicular rock ; upon visiting the same place the 
following year in the month of October, he found that the same(?) 
pair of birds had repaired the old nest, and that it contained a 
single fresh egg, but when disturbed again by his climbing to it, 
they abandoned it, and built a new nest a few yards higher up, 
out of reach, the rock on which it was placed completely 
overhanging the site of the old nest. 
The eggs are two to three in number for a sitting, of a warm 
flesh or ruddy ground colour, almost obscured by freckles, spots, 
and confluent patches of a rich reddish-brown, in a few places the 
spots are nearly black. Length (A) 2T x 1'64 inch ; (B) 1-97 x 
0-65 inch ; (C) 2-1 x 1-57 inch. 
An egg taken by Mr. Bennett from the same nest the followin'* 
year, and which he kindly gave me, is of a very light variety, the 
ground colour being pinky-white, with reddish-brown or light 
chestnut markings, confined to the smaller end of the egg. Length 
2-1 x -6 inch. 
The eggs of this species are usually laid during the months of 
August and September. 
Hab. Derby, N.W.A., Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, \ ictoria and South Australia, Tasmania, W. and S.W. 
Australia. {Ramsay.) 
FALCO ITYPOLEUCUS, Go-uld. 
G-roy Falcon. 
Gould , JTandbk. Rds. Ansi., Vol. i., sp. 7, p. 24. 
“ This is a rare species not plentiful in any part of Australia, 
but occasionally obtained in the northern portion of the interior 
of Queensland, and Mr. Gould records it from Western Australia. 
I am indebted to Mr. J. B. White for specimens of the eggs taken 
on the upper Thomson River in Queensland.” 
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