. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . tin relied almostentirely on the toma-hawk, using the rope-laddf-r chiefly on deadtrees, which wouldsave a lot of labour,instead of ha\ ing tocut a number of stepsin the hard nests wereseen, andse\eral wereexamined during mystay, my hostinform-int, me that one thirdof tiie WhistlingEagles did not con-struct nesls them-selves, but used the deserted tenements of the Ravens (Cpiouc australis). On the nth Octoberhe climbed to the vicinity of a nest in the lateral upright branch of a lied Gum tree on the banksof the Talb
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . tin relied almostentirely on the toma-hawk, using the rope-laddf-r chiefly on deadtrees, which wouldsave a lot of labour,instead of ha\ ing tocut a number of stepsin the hard nests wereseen, andse\eral wereexamined during mystay, my hostinform-int, me that one thirdof tiie WhistlingEagles did not con-struct nesls them-selves, but used the deserted tenements of the Ravens (Cpiouc australis). On the nth Octoberhe climbed to the vicinity of a nest in the lateral upright branch of a lied Gum tree on the banksof the Talbragar River, and about seventy-five feet from the ground, from which he successfullyscooped two half incubated eggs ; a pair of Spotted-sided Finches (Stagoiioplcum i^uttata) wereengaged in constructing their grass-formed nest among the sticks beneath the nest of the WhistlingEagle, while he was taking the eggs. Ihe sitting bird flew off the nest on our approach, and didnot return while we were at the tree. On the following day Mr. Austin climbed a tree well a^vay. OF UniSTLINC EAC^LE. IIALIASTIU. 233 from the river, to another nest about fifty feet from the -lound, containing, a nearly Hedged youn,L,one, which he lowered to the ground with a rishing hue, and I photographed it, the old birdscircling high in the air in the meantime, but not venturing near the nest. Mr. Austin on the13th October chopped steps for some distance in the trunk of a Red Gum, and after climbingsome distance further, scooped one egg another nest of the Whistling Eagle, about forty-five feet from the ground, and afterwards climbed right to the nest and found tlie other eggamong the sticks, and away from the Gum leaves with which tlie centre of the structure waslined. Only one bird was seen which sat for some time on a neighbouring tree during ourstay at the Red Gum ; the eggs were about half incubated. Of the Whistling Eagles nests examined by Mr. Austin on the iXth Octol)er, one he climbedto
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