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FAT,COMO,t:. 
“ I was fortunate enough to procure three eggs of this species, 
taken by Mr. Macgillivray’s blackfellow “Daddy.” Mr. 
Macgillivray informs me that, when Daddy was taking the eggs, 
the female dashed so close to him that he killed it with his 
tomahawk, The male bird belonging to tho nest had been shot 
the day before. The nest was a comparatively small structure of 
sticks placed upon a horizontal bough, at a considerable distance 
from the ground. It contained three eggs, much smaller than 1 
expected to find them. They have the peculiarity of being very 
much rounded at the larger end, are short upon the whole, and 
have the thin end pointed abruptly. Their average length is 1 y,r 
by 1 inch in breadth ; the ground colour greenish-white (the 
inside of the shell being of a pale sea-green), very sparingly 
smeared and blotched or spotted with light brown ; one specimen 
has but two or three spots of a light brownish tint.” ( P.Z.S ., 
18G7, p. 392, Ramsay). 
Mr. Geo. Barnard of Coomooboolaroo, has been successful in 
taking sexeral nests of this species in the Dawson River District. 
Two eggs received from him in 1884, measure as follows : — length 
(A) 1-73 x Dll inch : (B) R75 x 1*4 inch. 
I Pah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Cape York, Rockingham 
Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond 
and Clarence Rivers District, New South Wales. 
Genus FALCO, 
FALCO MELANOGENYS, Gould. 
Black-cheeked Falcon. 
Gould, Ilandbk. lids. Ausf., Yol. i., sp. 8, p. 26. 
This species builds its nest upon tho side of a clifFor precipitous 
rock. Mr. K. H. Bennett found a nest of this species at Mount 
Manara, in the Wilcannia District on the 9th September, 1885, 
which contained three eggs, the nest was about 70 feet from the 
