. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . us lea\es. .As arule the nests when builtin trees are well placed outof harms way, sometimesover one hundred feet fromthe ground, and frequentlyin dead and rotten trees,rendering them more inac-cessible; occasionally theyare built low down in treestwelve to twenty feet fromthe ground. The nests areadded to every season, andsome of them are immensestructures. The eggs are usually two,very rarely three in numberfor a sitting, \arying fromrounded ellipse to oval orelongate oval in form, dullwhite, the shell beingcoarse-grained a
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . us lea\es. .As arule the nests when builtin trees are well placed outof harms way, sometimesover one hundred feet fromthe ground, and frequentlyin dead and rotten trees,rendering them more inac-cessible; occasionally theyare built low down in treestwelve to twenty feet fromthe ground. The nests areadded to every season, andsome of them are immensestructures. The eggs are usually two,very rarely three in numberfor a sitting, \arying fromrounded ellipse to oval orelongate oval in form, dullwhite, the shell beingcoarse-grained and lustre-less as a rule, but one setnow before me has thesurface slightly glossy;they are variable in size,e\-en in the same set, andsome specimens are stainedor smeared in places withlight brown or yellowish-brown. Two eggs takenby the late Mr. Ralph Har-graves from different nestsat Wattamclla, New South Wales, in August, 1870, and August, 1875, measure respectively.—Length (A) 272 x 2-06 inches; (B) 2-98 x 2-i6 inches. A set of two taken by Mr. \V. White, 86. CLIMHIVG TO A NEST OF THE WHTrR-BRLI-IED SEA-EAGLE. on Kaiii^arou Island, South , in August, iSy2, measures:—^th (A) 276 x 2i7inches; (JJ) 2-72 x 2-14 inches. A set of two received from Mr. George Savidge, and taken atBroadwater, on the Upper Clarence Kiver, New South Wales, on the 17th |uly, 1S97, measures :—Length (A) 293 x 2-23 inches; (1!) 3-25 x 2-24 inches; the former egg of this set is represented onFlate I!. X\II., figure 1. A set of two taken on the 2nd October, 1892, by J\Ir. E. ,on Walkers Island, ofl tlie north-western coast of Iasmania, measures :—Length (A) 2^93 x 22inches; (B) 2^93 x 2-22 inches. A set of two taken at Middle Harbour, Sydney, measures:—Length (A) 2-S x 2-17 inches; (B) 2-82 x 2-2 inches. Young birds are brown above with brownish-white tips to the feathers, the nape and hindneck tipped or margined with tawny-brown ; rump darker brown with l<
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