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FALCONID.E. 
topmost branches of the larger Eucalypti, or placed at the end of 
a leaning bough. The lower part of the nest is made of thick 
sticks, smaller ones being used for the top, and the whole lined 
■with twigs and grasses. The first eggs I obtained were taken in 
August, 1860, and were given to me by Mr. James Ramsay, at 
Cardington, a station on the Bell River, near Molong. They 
were taken from the nest by a black boy who had “ stepped ” the 
tree. The nest was placed upon a fork near the end of 
one of the main branches of a large Eucalyptus. It was 
fully 70 feet from the ground, and no easy task to get to it. 
The structure was about 3.] feet high by 4 or 5 broad, and 
about 18 inches deep, lined with tufts of grass and with down 
and feathers plucked from the breasts of the birds, upon which 
the eggs were placed. The eggs were two in number, nearly 
round, and very thick and rough in the shell. One egg is 
3 inches long by 2| broad; the ground colour white, thickly 
blotched and minutely freckled with rust-red, light yellowish 
brown, and obselete spots of a lilac tint. The other egg is nearly 
all white, having only a few blotches of light yellowish brown, 
and some fine dots of light rust-red; it is 2§ inches in length by 
2J- in breadth.” (Ibis, 1863, Vol. v., p. 446, Ramsay.) 
Two eggs of this species in the Australian Museum Collection 
measure as follows:—length (A) 3‘01 x 2T8 inches; (B) 3 - 02 x 
2'22 inches. 
Hal). Derby, N.W. Australia, Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, 
Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, Dawson 
River, Richmond and Clarence River District, New South 
Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, 
W. and S.AV. Australia. (Ramsay.) 
AQUILA MORPHNOIDES, Gould. 
Little Eagle. 
Gould, Handbk. Rds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 2, p. 11. 
The nest of this Eagle is about the size of that of Corvus 
coronoides, and composed of similar materials, sticks and twigs, 
