. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . (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
. Nests and eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania . (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<irL;er whitish tips; thelonger upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dull dingy-white, the latter tipped with brown,more largely on the outermost feathers on either side, which are again narrowly edged at thetip with brownish-white ; throat buff, remainder of the under surface rufescent-brown with buffy-white centres or tips, paler on the lower breast and abdomen, where many of the feathers are buffy-white indistinctly mottled with pale. rufescent-brown ; thighs pale rufescent-brown ; under tail-coverts pale bulfy-white. Wing of male slightly of the adult, 22 inches. Semi-adultbirds resemble the adults, but are dullerin colour, and have the feathers on thecrown of the head, hind neck and fore-neck more or less marked with tawny-brown, and the white feathers of the underparts washed with buff; the upper partsare browner, am! the entire tail-feathersare dingy-white with a few indistinctbrown mottlings. Some apparently adultbirds have the lesser upper wing-covertsmargined with white at the tips, and theshafts of the feathers on the crown of thehead,nape, hind neck and the breast black. Mr. Chas. (j. Gibson has sent me thefollowing note respecting the photographof the young White-bellied Sea-Eagle, which is here reproduced:— White-bellied Sea-Eagles(Ilaluhins l(-iici[L;intir) nests were noted only on the Wallabi Islands, four or five bein
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