. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . m Western AustraHa :— Tlie photograpli of a nest ofPaiidion IcuiOicplialus was taken on Pelsart island, Houtmanns Abrolhos, off Champion Bay,Webtern Australia, nth November, 1907. Nests were seen on almost every island; on thosevisited they were usually placed some distance back from the sea, in distinction from those ofthe White-bellied Sea Eagle {Haliivtiis leiuof;asttr), which were placed right at the waters nests varied in height from one foot to four feet, and were composed of all the odds and endsavailable, and
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . m Western AustraHa :— Tlie photograpli of a nest ofPaiidion IcuiOicplialus was taken on Pelsart island, Houtmanns Abrolhos, off Champion Bay,Webtern Australia, nth November, 1907. Nests were seen on almost every island; on thosevisited they were usually placed some distance back from the sea, in distinction from those ofthe White-bellied Sea Eagle {Haliivtiis leiuof;asttr), which were placed right at the waters nests varied in height from one foot to four feet, and were composed of all the odds and endsavailable, and which could be picked up on the beach, viz., sticks, pieces of board, straw bottleen\elopes, sponges, seaweed, cuttlefish, pieces of coral, etc., in fact anything and everything thatdrifted on to the beach ; tops of nests were slightly hollowed and roughly lined with a littleseaweed. Although the eggs are usually three in number, a full brood is apparently rarelyraised, as in no case were more than two young noted, and occasionally only one. At the time ^* i3?!. \VI11TE-I1K.\DEU OSPKEYS NEST ON ^liT \NIJ, AlIROLHOS, WESTERN AUSTliALIA. of our visit in November the nests all either contained young of varying size or else the youngbirds were flying about ; no eggs were obtained. The photograph is typical. Mr. E. D. Atkinson sends me the following notes from Tasmania:— I have seen PandionIcitcoccpltalns in DEntrecasteaux Channel, in the south-east, but nowhere else have I observed one occasion I remember an Osprey flying to a tree with a fish in its talons ; the bird wasshot at and flew away unhurt, but dropped the fish, which proved to be a fine mullet. I havethe eggs from Kings Island, Bass Strait, so the bird must occur there. The eggs are usually three, occasionally only two, and rarely four in number for a sitting,and are extremely variable in shape and disposition of their markings, even in the same set;they vary from elongate-oval to thick
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