Chapter XII: Part I: p. 19. 2nd edit. p. 41 (7)

────────────────────┬────────┬──────────────────────┬────────────────── │ │ │ │ Van │ │ Number of Volume Name of Species. │Diemen’s│ Extra Australian. │ and Plate. │ Land. │ │ │ │ │ ────────────────────┼────────┼──────────────────────┼────────────────── Aquila fucosa, │ * │ │Vol. I. Pl. 1. _Cuv._ │ │ │ —— Morphnoïdes, │ │ │— 2. _Gould_ │ │ │ Ichthyiaëtus │ * │India and Africa? │— 3. leucogaster │ │ │ Haliastur │ │ │ leucosternus, │ │ │— 4. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sphenurus │ │ │— 5. Pandion │ │ │ leucocephalus, │ * │ │— 6. _Gould_ │ │ │ Falco hypoleucus, │ │ │— 7. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanogenys, │ * │ │— 8. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— subniger, _Gray_ │ │ │— 9. —— frontatus, │ * │ │— 10. _Gould_ │ │ │ Ieracidea Berigora │ * │ │— 11. —— occidentalis, │ │ │— 12. _Gould_ │ │ │ Tinnunculus │ │ │— 13. Cenchroïdes │ │ │ Astur Novæ-Hollandiæ│ │ │— 14. —— —— (albino) │ * │ │— 15. —— radiatus │ │ │— 16. —— approximans, │ * │ │— 17. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— cruentus, _Gould_│ │ │— 18. Accipiter torquatus │ * │ │— 19. Buteo melanosternon,│ │ │— 20. _Gould_ │ │ │ Milvus affinis, │ * │ │— 21. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— isurus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 22. Elanus axillaris │ │ │— 23. —— scriptus, _Gould_│ │ │— 24. Lepidogenys │ │ │ subcristatus, │ │ │— 25. _Gould_ │ │ │ Circus assimilis, │ * │ │— 26. _Jard. & Selb._ │ │ │ —— Jardinii, _Gould_│ │ │— 27. Strix castanops, │ * │ │— 28. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— personata, _Vig._│ │ │— 29. —— tenebricosus, │ │ │— 30. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— delicatulus, │ │ │— 31. _Gould_ │ │ │ Athene Boobook │ * │ │— 32. —— maculata │ * │ │— 33. —— marmorata, │ │ │Intro., p. xxv. _Gould_ │ │ │ ——? connivens │ │ │Vol. I. Pl. 34. —— strenua, _Gould_ │ │ │— 35. —— rufa, _Gould_ │ │ │— 36. Ægotheles │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 1. Novæ-Hollandiæ │ │ │ —— leucogaster, │ │ │— 2. _Gould_ │ │ │ Podargus │ │ │Intro., p. xxviii. megacephalus │ │ │ —— humeralis, _Vig. │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 3. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— Cuvieri, _Vig. & │ * │ │— 4. Horsf._ │ │ │ —— brachypterus, │ │ │Intro., p. xxvi. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Phalænoïdes, │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 5. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— plumiferus, │ │ │— 6. _Gould_ │ │ │ Eurostopodus │ │ │— 7. albogularis │ │ │ —— guttatus │ │ │— 8. Caprimulgus │ │Java │— 9. macrurus, _Horsf._│ │ │ Acanthylis caudacuta│ * │ │— 10. Cypselus Australis, │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 11. _Gould_ │ │ │ Atticora │ │ │ leucosternon, │ │ │— 12. _Gould_ │ │ │ Hirundo neoxena, │ * │ │— 13. _Gould_ │ │ │ Chelidon arborea │ * │ │— 14. —— Ariel, _Gould_ │ │ │— 15. Merops ornatus, │ │ │— 16. _Lath._ │ │ │ Eurystomus │ │ │ Australis, │ │ │— 17. _Swains._ │ │ │ Dacelo gigantea │ │ │— 18. —— Leachii, _Vig. & │ │ │— 19. Horsf._ │ │ │ —— cervina, _Gould_ │ │ │— 20. Halcyon sanctus, │ │ │— 21. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— pyrrhopygia, │ │ │— 22. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sordidus, _Gould_│ │ │— 23. —— MacLeayii, _Jard.│ │ │— 24. & Selby_ │ │ │ Alcyone azurea │ │ │— 25. —— Diemenensis, │ * │ │Intro., p. xxxi. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pulchra, _Gould_ │ │ │Intro., p. xxxii. —— pusilla │ │New Guinea. │Vol. II. Pl. 26. Artamus sordidus │ * │ │— 27. —— minor, _Vieill._ │ │ │— 28. —— cinereus, │ │Timor │— 29. _Vieill._ │ │ │ —— albiventris, │ │ │— 30. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— personatus, │ │ │— 31. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— superciliosus, │ │ │— 32. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucopygialis, │ │ │— 33. _Gould_ │ │ │ Dicæum hirundinaceum│ │ │— 34. Pardalotus punctatus│ * │ │— 35. —— rubricatus, │ │ │— 36. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— quadragintus, │ * │ │— 37. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— striatus │ │ │— 38. —— affinis, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 39. —— melanocephalus, │ │ │— 40. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— uropygialis, │ │ │— 41. _Gould_ │ │ │ Strepera graculina │ │ │— 42. —— fuliginosa, │ * │ │— 43. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— arguta, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 44. —— Anaphonensis │ │ │— 45. —— melanoptera, │ │ │Intro., p. xxxiv. _Gould_ │ │ │ Gymnorhina Tibicen │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 46. —— leuconota, │ │ │— 47. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— organicum, │ * │ │— 48. _Gould_ │ │ │ Cracticus │ │ │ nigrogularis, │ │ │— 49. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— picatus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 50. —— argenteus, │ │ │— 51. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— destructor │ │ │— 52. —— cinereus, _Gould_│ * │ │Intro., p. xxxv. —— leucopterus, │ │ │Intro., p. xxxv. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Quoyii │ │New Guinea. │Vol. II. Pl. 53. Grallina Australis │ │ │— 54. Graucalus melanops │ │ │— 55. —— parvirostris, │ * │ │Intro., p. xxxv. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— mentalis, _Vig. &│ * │ │Vol. II. Pl. 56. Horsf._ │ │ │ Graucalus │ │ │ hypoleucus, │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 57. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Swainsonii, │ │ │— 58. _Gould_ │ │ │ Pteropodocys │ │ │ Phasianellus, │ │ │— 59. _Gould_ │ │ │ Campephaga Jardinii,│ │ │— 60. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Karu │ │New Guinea. │— 61. —— leucomela, _Vig. │ │ │— 62. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— humeralis, │ │ │— 63. _Gould_ │ │ │ Pachycephala │ │ │— 64. gutturalis │ │ │ —— glaucura, _Gould_│ * │ │— 65. —— melanura, _Gould_│ │ │— 66. —— pectoralis │ │ │— 67. —— falcata, _Gould_ │ │ │— 68. —— Lanoïdes, _Gould_│ │ │— 69. —— rufogularis, │ │ │— 70. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Gilbertii, │ │ │— 71. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— simplex, _Gould_ │ │ │— 72. —— olivacea, _Vig. &│ * │ │— 73. Horsf._ │ │ │ Colluricincla │ │ │— 74. harmonica │ │ │ —— rufiventris, │ │ │— 75. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— brunnea, _Gould_ │ │ │— 76. —— Selbii, _Jard._ │ * │ │— 77. —— parvula, _Gould_ │ │ │— 78. —— rufogaster, │ │ │Intro., p. xxxvi. _Gould_ │ │ │ Falcunculus │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 79. frontatus │ │ │ —— leucogaster, │ │ │— 80. _Gould_ │ │ │ Oreoïca gutturalis │ │ │— 81. Dicrurus bracteatus,│ │ │— 82. _Gould_ │ │ │ Rhipidura albiscapa,│ * │ │— 83. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— rufifrons │ │ │— 84. —— Dryas, _Gould_ │ │ │Intro., p. xxxix. —— isura, _Gould_ │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 85. —— Motacilloïdes, │ │ │— 86. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— picata, _Gould_ │ │ │Intro., p. xxxix. Seïsura inquieta │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 87. Piezorhynchus │ │ │— 88. nitidus, _Gould_ │ │ │ Myiägra plumbea, │ │ │— 89. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— concinna, _Gould_│ │ │— 90. —— nitida, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 91. —— latirostris, │ │ │— 92. _Gould_ │ │ │ Micrœca macroptera │ │ │— 93. —— assimilis, │ │ │Intro., p. xl. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— flavigaster, │ │ │Vol. II. Pl. 94. _Gould_ │ │ │ Monarcha carinata │ │ │— 95. —— trivirgata │ │ │— 96. Gerygone │ │ │ albogularis, │ │ │— 97. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— fuscus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 98. —— culicivorus, │ │ │— 99. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— magnirostris, │ │ │— 100. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— lævigaster, │ │ │— 101. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— chloronotus, │ │ │— 102. _Gould_ │ │ │ Smicrornis │ │ │ brevirostris, │ │ │— 103. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— flavescens, │ │ │— 104. _Gould_ │ │ │ Erythrodryas │ * │ │Vol. II. . Pl. 1. rhodinogaster │ │ │ —— rosea, _Gould_ │ │ │— 2. Petroïca multicolor │ * │ │— 3. —— erythrogastra │ │Norfolk Island │— 4. —— Goodenovii │ │ │— 5. —— phœnicea, _Gould_│ * │ │— 6. —— bicolor, │ │ │— 7. _Swains._ │ │ │ —— fusca, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 8. —— superciliosa, │ │ │— 9. _Gould_ │ │ │ Drymodes │ │ │ brunneopygia, │ │ │— 10. _Gould_ │ │ │ Eöpsaltria Australis│ │ │— 11. —— griseogularis, │ │ │— 12. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucogaster, │ │ │— 13. _Gould_ │ │ │ Menura superba, │ │ │— 14. _Dav._ │ │ │ Psophodes crepitans │ │ │— 15. —— nigrogularis, │ │ │— 16. _Gould_ │ │ │ Sphenostoma │ │ │— 17. cristata, _Gould_ │ │ │ Malurus cyaneus │ │ │— 18. —— longicaudus, │ * │ │— 19. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanotus, │ │ │— 20. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— splendens │ │ │— 21. —— elegans, _Gould_ │ │ │— 22. —— pulcherrimus, │ │ │— 23. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Lamberti, _Vig. &│ │ │— 24. Horsf._ │ │ │ —— leucopterus, │ │ │— 25. _Quoy & Gaim._ │ │ │ —— melanocephalus, │ │ │— 26. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— Brownii, _Vig. & │ │ │— 27. Horsf._ │ │ │ Amytis textilis │ │ │— 28. —— striatus, _Gould_│ │ │— 29. —— macrourus, │ │ │— 30. _Gould_ │ │ │ Stipiturus │ * │ │— 31. malachurus │ │ │ Dasyornis Australis,│ │ │— 32. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— longirostris, │ │ │— 33. _Gould_ │ │ │ Atrichia clamosa, │ │ │— 34. _Gould_ │ │ │ Sphenœacus │ │ │— 35. galactotes │ │ │ —— gramineus, │ │ │— 36. _Gould_ │ │ │ Acrocephalus │ │ │— 37. Australis, _Gould_│ │ │ —— longirostris, │ │ │— 38. _Gould_ │ │ │ Hylacola pyrrhopygia│ │ │— 39. —— cauta, _Gould_ │ │ │— 40. Cysticola magna, │ │ │— 41. A _Gould_ │ │ │ Unknown —— exilis │ │ │— 42. —— lineocapilla, │ │ │— 43. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— isura, _Gould_ │ │ │— 44. —— ruficeps, _Gould_│ │ │— 45. Sericornis │ │ │ citreogularis, │ │ │— 46. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— humilis, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 47. —— osculans, _Gould_│ │ │— 48. —— frontalis │ │ │— 49. —— lævigaster, │ │ │— 50. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— maculatus, │ │ │— 51. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— magnirostris, │ │ │— 52. _Gould_ │ │ │ Acanthiza pusilla │ │ │Vol. II. . Pl. 53. —— Diemenensis, │ * │ │— 54. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Ewingii, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 55. —— uropygialis, │ │ │— 56. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— apicalis, _Gould_│ │ │— 57. —— pyrrhopygia, │ │ │— 58. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— inornata, _Gould_│ │ │— 59. —— nana, _Vig. & │ │ │— 60. Horsf._ │ │ │ —— lineata, _Gould_ │ │ │— 61. —— Reguloïdes, _Vig.│ │ │— 62. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— chrysorrhœa │ * │ │— 63. Ephthianura │ │ │— 64. albifrons │ │ │ —— aurifrons, │ │ │— 65. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— tricolor, _Gould_│ │ │— 66. Xerophila leucopsis,│ │ │— 67. _Gould_ │ │ │ Pyrrholæmus │ │ │— 68. brunneus, _Gould_ │ │ │ Origma rubricata │ │ │— 69. Calamanthus │ * │ │— 70. fuliginosus │ │ │ —— campestris, │ │ │— 71. _Gould_ │ │ │ Chthonicola minima │ │ │— 72. Anthus Australis, │ * │ │— 73. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ Cincloramphus │ │ │— 74. cruralis │ │ │ —— cantillans, │ │ │— 75. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— rufescens │ │ │— 76. Mirafra Horsfieldii,│ │ │— 77. _Gould_ │ │ │ Estrelda bella │ * │ │— 78. —— oculea │ │ │— 79. —— Bichenovii │ │ │— 80. —— annulosa, _Gould_│ │ │— 81. —— temporalis │ │ │— 82. —— Phaëton │ │ │— 83. —— ruficauda, │ │ │— 84. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— modesta, _Gould_ │ │ │— 85. Amadina Lathamii │ │ │— 86. —— castanotis, │ │ │— 87. _Gould_ │ │ │ Poëphila Gouldiæ, │ │ │— 88. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— mirabilis, _Homb.│ │ │— 89. & Jacq._ │ │ │ —— acuticauda, │ │ │— 90. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— personata, │ │ │— 91. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucotis, _Gould_│ │ │— 92. —— cincta, _Gould_ │ │ │— 93. Donacola │ │ │ castaneothorax, │ │ │— 94. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pectoralis, │ │ │— 95. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— flaviprymna, │ │ │— 96. _Gould_ │ │ │ Emblema picta, │ │ │— 97. _Gould_ │ │ │ Pitta strepitans, │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 1. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— Vigorsii, _Gould_│ │ │— 2. —— Iris, _Gould_ │ │ │— 3. Cinclosoma │ │ │ punctatum, _Vig. &│ * │ │— 4. Horsf._ │ │ │ —— castanotus, │ │ │— 5. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— cinnamomeus, │ │ │— 6. _Gould_ │ │ │ Oreocincla lunulata │ * │ │— 7. Chlamydera maculata,│ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 8. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— nuchalis │ │ │— 9. Ptilonorhynchus │ │ │ holosericeus, │ │ │— 10. _Kuhl_ │ │ │ —— Smithii, _Vig. & │ │ │— 11. Horsf._ │ │ │ Sericulus │ │ │— 12. chrysocephalus │ │ │ Oriolus viridis │ │ │— 13. —— affinis, _Gould_ │ │ │Intro., p. liii. —— flavocinctus │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 14. Sphecotheres │ │ │ Australis, │ │ │— 15. _Swains._ │ │ │ Corcorax leucopterus│ │ │— 16. Struthidea cinerea, │ │ │— 17. _Gould_ │ │ │ Corvus Coronoïdes, │ * │ │— 18. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ Neomorpha Gouldii, │ │New Zealand │— 19. _G. R. Gray_ │ │ │ Pomatorhinus │ │ │— 20. temporalis │ │ │ —— rubeculus, │ │ │— 21. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— superciliosus, │ │ │— 22. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ Meliphaga │ * │ │— 23. Novæ-Hollandiæ │ │ │ —— longirostris, │ │ │— 24. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sericea, _Gould_ │ │ │— 25. —— mystacalis, │ │ │— 26. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Australasiana │ * │ │— 27. Glyciphila │ * │ │— 28. fulvifrons │ │ │ —— albifrons, │ │ │— 29. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— fasciata, _Gould_│ │ │— 30. —— ocularis, _Gould_│ │ │— 31. Ptilotis chrysotis │ │ │— 32. —— sonorus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 33. —— versicolor, │ │ │— 34. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— flavigula, │ │ │— 35. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucotis │ │ │— 36. —— auricomis │ │ │— 37. —— cratitius, │ │ │— 38. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— ornatus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 39. —— plumulus, _Gould_│ │ │— 40. —— flavescens, │ │ │— 41. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— flava, _Gould_ │ │ │— 42. —— penicillatus, │ │ │— 43. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— fusca, _Gould_ │ │ │— 44. —— chrysops │ │ │— 45. —— unicolor, _Gould_│ │ │— 46. Plectorhyncha │ │ │ lanceolata, │ │ │— 47. _Gould_ │ │ │ Xanthomyza Phrygia │ │ │— 48. Melicophila picata, │ │ │— 49. _Gould_ │ │ │ Entomophila picta, │ │ │— 50. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— albogularis, │ │ │— 51. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— rufogularis, │ │ │— 52. _Gould_ │ │ │ Acanthogenys │ │ │ rufogularis, │ │ │— 53. _Gould_ │ │ │ Anthochæra inauris, │ * │ │— 54. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— carunculata │ │ │— 55. —— mellivora │ * │ │— 56. —— lunulata, _Gould_│ │ │— 57. Tropidorhynchus │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 58. corniculatus │ │ │ —— argenticeps, │ │ │— 59. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— citreogularis, │ │ │— 60. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sordidus, _Gould_│ * │ │Intro., p. lviii. Acanthorhynchus │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 61. tenuirostris │ │ │ —— dubius, _Gould_ │ * │ │Intro., p. lix. —— superciliosus │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 62. Myzomela │ │ │— 63. sanguineolenta │ │ │ —— erythrocephala, │ │ │— 64. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pectoralis, │ │ │— 65. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— nigra, _Gould_ │ │ │— 66. —— obscura, _Gould_ │ │ │— 67. Entomyza cyanotis │ │ │— 68. —— albipennis, │ │ │— 69. _Gould_ │ │ │ Melithreptus │ │ │ validirostris, │ * │ │— 70. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— gularis, _Gould_ │ │ │— 71. —— lunulatus │ │ │— 72. —— chloropsis, │ │ │— 73. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— albogularis, │ │ │— 74. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanocephalus, │ * │ │— 75. _Gould_ │ │ │ Myzantha garrula │ * │ │— 76. —— obscura, _Gould_ │ │ │— 77. —— lutea, _Gould_ │ │ │— 78. —— flavigula, │ │ │— 79. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanophrys │ * │ │— 80. Zosterops dorsalis, │ * │ │— 81. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— chloronotus, │ │ │— 82. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— luteus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 83. Cuculus optatus, │ │ │— 84. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— inornatus, _Vig. │ * │ │— 85. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— cineraceus, _Vig.│ * │ │— 86. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— insperatus, │ │ │— 87. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— dumetorum │ │ │Intro., p. lx. Chrysococcyx │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 88. osculans, _Gould_ │ │ │ —— lucidus │ * │New Zealand? │— 89. Scythrops │ │ │ Novæ-Hollandiæ, │ │ │— 90. _Lath._ │ │ │ Eudynamys Flindersii│ │ │— 91. Centropus Phasianus │ │ │— 92. —— macrourus │ │ │Intro., p. lxi. —— melanurus │ │ │Intro., p. lxi. Climacteris │ │ │Vol. IV. Pl. 93. scandens, _Temm._ │ │ │ —— rufa, _Gould_ │ │ │— 94. —— erythrops, │ │ │— 95. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanotus, │ │ │— 96. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanura, _Gould_│ │ │— 97. —— picumnus, _Temm._│ │ │— 98. Orthonyx │ │ │ spinicaudus, │ │ │— 99. _Temm._ │ │ │ Ptiloris paradiseus,│ │ │— 100. _Swains._ │ │ │ Sittella chrysoptera│ │ │— 101. —— leucocephala, │ │ │— 102. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucoptera, │ │ │— 103. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pileata, _Gould_ │ │ │— 104. Cacatua galerita │ * │ │Vol. V. Pl. 1. —— Leadbeaterii │ │ │— 2. —— sanguinea, │ │ │— 3. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Eos │ │ │— 4. Licmetis nasicus │ │ │— 5. —— pastinator │ │ │Intro., p. lxiii. Nestor productus, │ │Phillip Island. │Vol. V. Pl. 6. _Gould_ │ │ │ Calyptorhynchus │ │ │— 7. Banksii │ │ │ —— macrorhynchus, │ │ │— 8. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— naso, _Gould_ │ │ │— 9. —— Leachii │ │ │— 10. —— funereus │ │ │— 11. —— xanthonotus, │ * │ │— 12. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Baudinii, _Vig._ │ │ │— 13. Callocephalon │ * │ │— 14. galeatum │ │ │ Polytelis │ │ │— 15. Barrabandii │ │ │ —— melanura │ │ │— 16. Aprosmictus │ │ │— 17. scapulatus │ │ │ —— erythropterus │ │ │— 18. Platycercus │ │ │— 19. semitorquatus │ │ │ —— Bauerii │ │ │— 20. —— Barnardii, _Vig. │ │ │— 21. & Horsf._ │ │ │ —— Adelaidiæ, │ │ │— 22. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Pennantii │ │ │— 23. —— flaviventris │ * │ │— 24. —— flaveolus, │ │ │— 25. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— palliceps, _Vig._│ │ │— 26. —— eximius │ * │ │— 27. —— splendidus, │ │ │— 28. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— icterotis │ │ │— 29. —— ignitus, _Lead._ │ │ │— 30. —— Brownii │ │ │— 31. —— pileatus, _Vig._ │ │ │— 32. Psephotus │ │ │ hæmatogaster, │ │ │— 33. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pulcherrimus, │ │ │— 34. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— multicolor │ │ │— 35. —— hæmatonotus, │ │ │— 36. _Gould_ │ │ │ Euphema chrysostoma │ * │ │— 37. —— elegans, _Gould_ │ │ │— 38. —— aurantia, _Gould_│ * │ │— 39. —— petrophila, │ │ │— 40. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pulchella │ │ │— 41. —— splendida, │ │ │— 42. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Bourkii │ │ │— 43. Melopsittacus │ │ │— 44. undulatus │ │ │ Nymphicus │ │ │— 45. Novæ-Hollandiæ │ │ │ Pezoporus formosus │ * │ │— 46. Lathamus discolor │ * │ │— 47. Trichoglossus │ │ │ Swainsonii, _Jard.│ * │ │— 48. & Selby_ │ │ │ —— rubritorquis, │ │ │— 49. _Vig. & Horsf._ │ │ │ Trichoglossus │ │ │Vol. V. Pl. 50. chlorolepidotus │ │ │ —— versicolor, │ │ │— 51. _Vig._ │ │ │ —— concinnus │ * │ │— 52. —— porphyrocephalus,│ │ │— 53. _Diet._ │ │ │ —— pusillus │ * │ │— 54. Ptilinopus │ │ │ Swainsonii, │ │ │— 55. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Ewingii, _Gould_ │ │ │— 56. —— superbus │ │ │— 57. Carpophaga magnifica│ │ │— 58. —— leucomela │ │ │— 59, —— luctuosa │ │ │— 60. Lopholaimus │ │ │— 61. Antarcticus │ │ │ Chalcophaps │ │ │— 62. chrysochlora │ │ │ —— longirostris │ │ │Intro., p. lxix. Leucosarcia picata │ │ │Vol. V. Pl. 63. Phaps chalcoptera │ * │ │— 64. —— elegans │ * │ │— 65. —— histrionica, │ │ │— 66. _Gould_ │ │ │ Geophaps scripta │ │ │— 67. —— Smithii │ │ │— 68. —— plumifera, │ │ │— 69. _Gould_ │ │ │ Ocyphaps Lophotes │ │ │— 70. Petrophassa │ │ │ albipennis, │ │ │— 71. _Gould_ │ │ │ Geopelia humeralis │ │ │— 72. —— tranquilla, │ │ │— 73. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— placida, _Gould_ │ │ │Intro., p. lxxi. —— cuneata │ │ │Vol. V. Pl. 74. Macropygia │ │ │— 75. Phasianella │ │ │ Didunculus │ │Samoan Islands │— 76. strigirostris │ │ │ Talegalla Lathami │ │ │— 77. Leipoa ocellata, │ │ │— 78. _Gould_ │ │ │ Megapodius Tumulus, │ │ │— 79. _Gould_ │ │ │ Pedionomus │ │ │— 80. torquatus, _Gould_│ │ │ Turnix melanogaster,│ │ │— 81. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— varius │ * │ │— 82. —— scintillans, │ │ │— 83. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanotus, │ │ │— 84. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— castanotus, │ │ │— 85. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pyrrhothorax, │ │ │— 86. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— velox, _Gould_ │ │ │— 87. Coturnix pectoralis,│ * │ │— 88. _Gould_ │ │ │ Synoïcus Australis │ * │ │— 89. —— Diemenensis, │ * │ │— 90. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sordidus, _Gould_│ │ │— 91. ——? Chinensis │ │Ind. Isl. and China │— 92. Dromaius │ * │ │Vol. VI. Pl. 1. Novæ-Hollandiæ │ │ │ Apteryx Australis, │ │New Zealand │— 2. _Shaw_ │ │ │ —— Owenii, _Gould_ │ │New Zealand │— 3. Otis Australis │ │ │— 4. Œdicnemus grallarius│ │ │— 5. Esacus magnirostris │ │ │— 6. Hæmatopus │ │ │ longirostris, │ * │ │— 7. _Vieill._ │ │ │ Hæmatopus │ │ │ fuliginosus, │ * │ │Vol. VI. Pl. 8. _Gould_ │ │ │ Lobivanellus lobatus│ * │ │— 9. —— personatus, │ │ │— 10. _Gould_ │ │ │ Sarciophorus │ * │ │— 11. pectoralis │ │ │ Squatarola Helvetica│ * │ │— 12. Charadrius │ │ │ xanthocheilus, │ * │ │— 13. _Wagl._ │ │ │ —— veredus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 14. Eudromias Australis,│ │ │— 15. _Gould_ │ │ │ Hiaticula bicincta │ * │ │— 16. —— ruficapilla │ * │ │— 17. —— monacha │ * │ │— 18. —— inornata, _Gould_│ * │ │— 19. —— nigrifrons │ │ │— 20. Erythrogonys │ │ │— 21. cinctus, _Gould_ │ │ │ Glareola grallaria, │ │ │— 22. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— Orientalis, │ │ │— 23. _Leach_ │ │ │ Himantopus │ │ │ leucocephalus, │ │ │— 24. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Novæ-Zelandiæ, │ │New Zealand │— 25. _Gould_ │ │ │ Chladorhynchus │ │ │— 26. pectoralis │ │ │ Recurvirostra │ │ │ rubricollis, │ * │ │— 27. _Temm._ │ │ │ Limosa Melanuroïdes,│ │ │— 28. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— uropygialis, │ * │ │— 29. _Gould_ │ │ │ Schœniclus Australis│ * │ │— 30. —— albescens │ * │ │— 31. —— subarquatus │ * │ │— 32. —— magnus, _Gould_ │ │Japan │— 33. Terekia cinerea │ │India and Europe │— 34. Actitis empusa, │ │ │— 35. _Gould_ │ │ │ Glottis Glottoïdes │ * │ │— 36. Totanus stagnatilis │ │India and Europe │— 37. —— griseopygius, │ │ │— 38. _Gould_ │ │ │ Strepsilas Interpres│ * │The sea-coasts of all │— 39. │ │ countries │ Scolopax Australis, │ * │ │— 40. _Lath._ │ │ │ Rhynchæa Australis, │ │ │— 41. _Gould_ │ │ │ Numenius Australis, │ * │ │— 42. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— uropygialis, │ * │ │— 43. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— minutus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 44. Geronticus │ │ │— 45. spinicollis │ │ │ Threskiornis │ │ │— 46. strictipennis │ │ │ Falcinellus igneus │ │ │— 47. Grus Australasianus,│ │ │— 48. _Gould_ │ │ │ Platalea flavipes, │ │ │— 49. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— regia, _Gould_ │ │ │— 50. Mycteria Australis, │ │ │— 51. _Lath._ │ │ │ Ardea pacifica, │ │ │— 52. _Lath._ │ │ │ —— Novæ-Hollandiæ, │ * │ │— 53. _Lath._ │ │ │ —— rectirostris, │ │Borneo? │— 54. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucophæa, │ │India? │— 55. _Gould_ │ │ │ Herodias │ │ │ syrmatophorus, │ │ │— 56. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— plumiferus, │ │ │— 57. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— immaculatus, │ │ │— 58. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pannosus, _Gould_│ │ │— 59. Herodias? jugularis │ │New Zealand │Vol. VI. Pl. 60. —— Greyi │ │ │— 61. —— picata, _Gould_ │ │ │— 62. Nycticorax │ * │ │— 63. Caledonicus │ │ │ Botaurus Australis, │ * │ │— 64. _Gould_ │ │ │ Ardetta flavicollis │ │ │— 65. —— macrorhyncha, │ │ │— 66. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— stagnatilis, │ │ │— 67. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— pusilla │ │ │— 68. Porphyrio melanotus,│ * │ │— 69. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— bellus, _Gould_ │ │ │— 70. Tribonyx Mortieri, │ │ │— 71. _DuBus_ │ │ │ —— ventralis, │ │ │— 72. _Gould_ │ │ │ Gallinula tenebrosa,│ │ │— 73. _Gould_ │ │ │ Fulica Australis, │ │ │— 74. _Gould_ │ │ │ Parra gallinacea, │ │New Guinea │— 75. _Temm._ │ │ │ Rallus pectoralis, │ * │ │— 76. _Cuv._ │ │ │ —— Lewinii, │ │ │— 77. _Swains._ │ │ │ Eulabeornis │ │ │ castaneoventris, │ │ │— 78. _Gould_ │ │ │ Porzana fluminea, │ * │ │— 79. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— palustris, │ * │ │— 80. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucophrys, │ │ │— 81. _Gould_ │ │ │ ——? immaculata │ * │ │— 82. Cereopsis │ │ │ Novæ-Hollandiæ, │ * │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 1. _Lath._ │ │ │ Anseranas │ │ │— 2. melanoleuca │ │ │ Bernicla jubata │ │ │— 3. Nettapus pulchellus,│ │ │— 4. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— albipennis, │ │ │— 5. _Gould_ │ │ │ Cygnus atratus │ * │ │— 6. Casarca Tadornoïdes │ * │ │— 7. Tadorna Radjah │ │ │— 8. Anas superciliosa, │ * │ │— 9. _Gmel._ │ │ │ —— nævosa, _Gould_ │ │ │— 10. —— punctata, _Cuv._ │ * │ │— 11. Spatula Rhynchotis │ * │ │— 12. Malacorhynchus │ * │ │— 13. membranaceus │ │ │ Dendrocygna arcuata │ │ │— 14. —— Eytoni, _Gould_ │ │ │— 15. Nyroca Australis, │ * │ │— 16. _Gould_ │ │ │ Erismatura Australis│ │ │— 17. Biziura lobata │ * │ │— 18. Larus Pacificus │ * │ │— 19. Xema Jamesonii │ * │ │— 20. Lestris Catarractes │ * │ │— 21. Sylochelidon │ * │ │— 22. strenuus │ │ │ Thalasseus │ │ │— 23. Pelecanoïdes │ │ │ —— poliocercus, │ * │ │— 24. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Torresii, _Gould_│ │India │— 25. Sterna │ │ │ melanorhyncha, │ * │ │— 26. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— gracilis, _Gould_│ │ │— 27. —— melanauchen, │ │Indian Islands │— 28. _Temm._ │ │ │ Sternula Nereis, │ * │ │— 29. _Gould_ │ │ │ Gelochelidon │ *? │ │Intro., p. xcv. macrotarsus │ │ │ Gygis candida │ │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 30. Hydrochelidon │ │ │ fluviatilis, │ │ │— 31. _Gould_ │ │ │ Onychoprion │ │ │— 32. fuliginosus? │ │ │ —— Panaya │ │ │— 33. Anoüs stolidus │ │ │— 34. —— melanops, _Gould_│ │ │— 35. —— leucocapillus, │ │ │— 36. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— cinereus, _Gould_│ │ │— 37. Diomedea exulans, │ * │Southern Ocean │— 38. _Linn._ │ │ │ —— brachyura, │ │N. Pacific Ocean? │— 39. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— cauta, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 40. —— culminata, │ * │Southern Ocean │— 41. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— chlororhynchos, │ * │Southern Ocean │— 42. _Lath._ │ │ │ —— melanophrys, │ * │Southern Ocean │— 43. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— fuliginosa │ * │Southern Ocean │— 44. —— olivaceorhyncha, │ │N. Pacific Ocean? │Intro., p. xcvii. _Gould_ │ │ │ Procellaria gigantea│ * │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 45. —— Æquinoctialis │ *? │S. Indian Ocean │Intro., p. xcvii. —— conspicillata, │ * │S. Indian Ocean │Vol. VII. Pl. 46. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— hasitata, _Kuhl_ │ * │Southern Ocean │— 47. —— Atlantica, │ *? │S. Pacific and S. │Intro., p. xcvii. _Gould_ │ │ Atlantic Oceans │ —— macroptera, │ *? │South Pacific │Intro., p. xcviii. _Smith_ │ │ │ —— Solandrii, │ * │ │Intro., p. xcviii. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Glacialoïdes, │ * │New Zealand and S. │Vol. VII. Pl. 48. _Smith_ │ │ Pacific │ —— Lessonii, _Garn._│ * │ │— 49. —— mollis, _Gould_ │ *? │S. Indian and S. │— 50. │ │ Atlantic Oceans │ —— Cookii, _G. R. │ * │ │— 51. Gray_ │ │ │ —— cœrulea, _Gmel._ │ * │Southern Ocean │— 52. —— flavirostris, │ *? │S. Indian Ocean │Intro., p. xcviii. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— nivea, _Gmel._ │ *? │Antarctic Seas │Intro., p. xcviii. —— Antarctica, │ *? │Antarctic Seas │Intro., p. xcviii. _Gmel._ │ │ │ Daption Capensis │ * │Southern Ocean │Vol. VII. Pl. 53. Prion Turtur │ * │Southern Ocean │— 54. —— vittatus, _Cuv._ │ * │Southern Ocean │— 55. —— Banksii │ * │Southern Ocean │Intro., p. xcix. —— Ariel, _Gould_ │ │Bass’s Straits │Intro., p. xcix. Puffinus │ │ │ brevicaudus, │ * │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 56. _Brandt_ │ │ │ —— carneipes, │ │ │— 57. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— sphenurus, │ │ │— 58. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— assimilis, │ │ │— 59. _Gould_ │ │ │ Puffinuria Urinatrix│ * │ │— 60. Thalassidroma │ │ │— 61. marina, _Less._ │ │ │ —— melanogaster, │ * │S. Indian Ocean │— 62. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— leucogaster, │ * │S. Indian Ocean │— 63. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Tropica, _Gould_ │ │Tropic, in the │Intro., p. c. │ │ Atlantic │ —— Nereis, _Gould_ │ * │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 64. —— Wilsonii, │ │S. Ocean and the │ _Bonap._ │ * │ temperate Lat. of │— 65. │ │ the northern │ Phalacrocorax │ * │ │— 66. Carboïdes, _Gould_│ │ │ —— sulcirostris │ │ │— 67. —— hypoleucus │ │New Zealand? │— 68. Phalacrocorax │ │ │ leucogaster, │ * │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 69. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— melanoleucus, │ * │ │— 70. _Vieill._ │ │ │ —— punctatus │ │New Zealand │— 71. Attagen Ariel, │ │ │— 72. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— Aquila? │ │ │Intro., p. c. Phaëton phœnicurus │ │ │Vol. VII. Pl. 73. Pelecanus │ │ │ conspicillatus, │ * │ │— 74. _Temm._ │ │ │ Plotus │ │ │ Novæ-Hollandiæ, │ │ │— 75. _Gould_ │ │ │ Sula Australis, │ * │ │— 76. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— personata, │ │ │— 77. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— fusca, _Briss._ │ │ │— 78. —— piscator, _Linn._│ │ │— 79. Podiceps Australis, │ * │ │— 80. _Gould_ │ │ │ —— gularis, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 81. —— poliocephalus, │ * │ │— 82. _Jard. & Selb._ │ │ │ │ │The I. of Tristan │ Eudyptes chrysocome │ * │ D’Acunha, St. Paul’s│— 83. │ │ and Amsterdam │ Spheniscus minor, │ * │ │— 84. _Temm._ │ │ │ —— undina, _Gould_ │ * │ │— 85. ────────────────────┴────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────

On a review of the above Table it will be seen that 385 species inhabit New South Wales, 289 South Australia, 243 Western Australia, 230 Northern Australia, and 181 Van Diemen’s Land; and that of these, 88 are peculiar to New South Wales; 16 to South Australia; 36 to Western Australia; 105 to Northern Australia, and 32 to Van Diemen’s Land.

The great excess in the number of species inhabiting New South Wales is doubtless attributable to the singular belt of luxuriant vegetation, termed brushes, which stretches along the southern and south-eastern coasts between the ranges and the sea, and which is tenanted by a fauna peculiarly its own.

Although this part of the continent is inhabited by a larger number of species than any other, it is a remarkable fact that the species peculiar to Northern Australia are much more numerous than those peculiar to New South Wales.

It is curious to observe also, that while Southern Australia is inhabited by a much larger number of species than Western Australia, those peculiar to the former are not half so numerous as those peculiar to the latter.

The more southern position, and consequently colder climate of Van Diemen’s Land, will readily account for the paucity of species found in that island.

By the term peculiar, I do not mean to convey the idea that the birds are strictly confined to the respective countries, but that as yet they have not been found elsewhere.

LIST OF PLATES
VOLUME I.

Aquila fucosa, _Cuv._ Wedge-tailed Eagle 1
—— Morphnoïdes, _Gould_ Little Australian Eagle 2
Ichthyiaëtus leucogaster White-bellied Sea Eagle 3
Haliaster leucosternus, _Gould_ White-breasted Sea Eagle 4
—— sphenurus Whistling Eagle 5
Pandion leucocephalus, _Gould_ White-headed Osprey 6
Falco hypoleucus, _Gould_ Grey Falcon 7
—— melanogenys, _Gould_ Black-cheeked Falcon 8
—— subniger, _Gray_ Black Falcon 9
—— frontatus, _Gould_ White-fronted Falcon 10
Ieracidea Berigora Brown Hawk 11
—— occidentalis, _Gould_ Western Brown Hawk 12
Tinnunculus Cenchroïdes Nankeen Kestril 13
Astur Novæ-Hollandiæ New Holland Goshawk 14
—— —— (albino) White Goshawk 15
—— radiatus Radiated Goshawk 10
—— approximans, _Vig. & Horsf._ Australian Goshawk 17
—— cruentus, _Gould_ West Australian Goshawk 18
Accipiter torquatus Collared Sparrow Hawk 19
Buteo melanosternon, _Gould_ Black-breasted Buzzard 20
Milvus affinis, _Gould_ Allied Kite 21
—— isurus, _Gould_ Square-tailed Kite 22
Elanus axillaris Black-shouldered Kite 23
—— scriptus, _Gould_ Letter-winged Kite 24
Lepidogenys subcristatus, _Gould_ Crested Hawk 25
Circus assimilis, _Jard. & Selb._ Allied Harrier 26
—— Jardinii, _Gould_ Jardine’s Harrier 27
Strix castanops, _Gould_ Chestnut-faced Owl 28
—— personata, _Vig._ Masked Barn Owl 29
—— tenebricosus, _Gould_ Sooty Owl 30
—— delicatulus, _Gould_ Delicate Owl 31
Athene Boobook Boobook Owl 32
—— maculata Spotted Owl 33
——? connivens Winking Owl 34
—— strenua, _Gould_ Powerful Owl 35
—— rufa, _Gould_ Rufous Owl 36

AQUILA FUCOSA: _Cuv_:

_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del^t_ _C. Hallmandel Imp._
]

AQUILA FUCOSA, _Cuv._
Wedge-tailed Eagle.

_Mountain Eagle of New South Wales_, Collins, New South Wales, vol.
ii. pl. in p. 288.

_Falco fucosus_, Cuv. Règn. Anim., 1st Edit. pl. 3. f. 1.—Temm. Pl.
Col. 32.

_Aquila fucosa_, Cuv. Règn. Anim., 2nd Edit. pl. 3. f. 1.—Vig. and
Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 188.—Less. Traité d’Orn., p.
39.—Steph. Cont. Shaw’s Gen. Zool., vol. xiv. p. 16.

_Aquila albirostris_, Vieill. 2nde Edit, du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat.,
tom. i. p. 229.—Ib. Ency. Méth. Orn., 3ieme part, p. 1191?

_Wol-dja_, Aborigines of the mountain and lowland districts of Western
Australia.

_Eagle Hawk_, Colonists of New South Wales.

This noble bird is so universally spread over the southern portion of Australia, that it is quite unnecessary for me to enter more minutely into detail respecting the extent of its range, than to say that it is equally distributed over the whole of the country from Swan River on the west to Moreton Bay on the east; it is also as numerous in Van Diemen’s Land, and on all the larger islands in Bass’s Straits, being of course more plentiful in such districts as are suited to its habits, and where the character of the country is congenial to the animals upon which it subsists. I have not yet seen it in any collection, either from the northern portion of Australia or any other country. In all probability it will hereafter be found to extend its range as far towards the tropics in the southern hemisphere as the Golden Eagle (_Aquila chrysaëta_) does in the northern: the two birds are, in fact, beautiful analogues of each other in their respective habitats, and doubtless perform similar offices in the great scheme of creation.

All that has been said by previous writers respecting the courage, power and rapacity of the one applies with equal force to the other; in size they are also nearly alike, but the lengthened and wedge-shaped form of its tail gives to the Australian bird a far more pleasing and elegant contour.

I find by my notes that one of those I killed weighed nine pounds, and measured six feet eight inches from tip to tip of the opposite pinions; but far larger individuals than this have, I should say, come under my notice. The natural disposition of the Wedge-tailed Eagle leads it to frequent the interior portion of the country rather than the shores or the neighbourhood of the sea. It preys indiscriminately on all the smaller species of Kangaroo which tenant the plains and the open crowns of the hills; and whose retreats, from the wonderful acuteness of its vision, it descries while soaring and performing those graceful evolutions and circles in the air, so frequently seen by the residents of the countries it inhabits: neither is the noble Bustard, whose weight is twice that of its enemy, and who finds a more secure asylum on the extensive plains of the interior than most animals, safe from its attacks; its tremendous stoop and powerful grasp, in fact, carry inevitable destruction to its victim, be it ever so large and formidable. The breeders of sheep find in this bird an enemy which commits extensive ravages among their lambs, and consequently in its turn it is persecuted unrelentingly by the shepherds of the stock-owners, who employ every artifice in their power to effect its extirpation, and in Van Diemen’s Land considerable rewards are offered for the accomplishment of the same end. The tracts of untrodden ground and the vastness of the impenetrable forests will, however, for a long series of years to come afford it an asylum, secure from the inroads of the destroying hand of man; still with every one waging war upon it, its numbers must necessarily be considerably diminished. For the sake of the refuse thrown away by the Kangaroo hunters it will often follow them for many miles, and even for days together. I clearly ascertained that although it mostly feeds upon living prey, it does not refuse to devour carrion or animals almost in a state of putridity. During one of my journeys into the interior to the northward of Liverpool Plains, I saw no less than thirty or forty assembled together around the carcase of a dead bullock, some gorged to the full, perched upon the neighbouring trees, the rest still in the enjoyment of the feast.

Those nests that I had opportunities of observing were placed on the most inaccessible trees, and were of a very large size, nearly flat, and built of sticks and boughs. The eggs, I regret to say, I could never procure, although I have shot the birds from their aerie, in which there were eggs, but which it was quite impossible to obtain; no one but the aborigines, of which none remain in Van Diemen’s Land, being capable of ascending such trees, many of which rise to more than a hundred feet before giving off a branch.

The adults have the head, throat, and all the upper and under surface blackish brown, stained on the edges and extremities of many of the feathers, particularly the wing and upper tail-coverts with pale brown; back and sides of the neck rusty-red; irides hazel; cere and space round the eye yellowish white; bill yellowish horn-colour, passing into black at the tip; feet light yellow.

The young have the head and back of the neck deep fawn-colour, striated with lighter; all the feathers of the upper surface largely tipped and stained with fawn and rusty-red; tail indistinctly barred near the extremity; throat and breast blackish brown, each feather largely tipped with rufous; the abdomen blackish brown.

The figure is about one-third of the natural size.

AQUILA MORPHNOÏDES: _Gould_

_J. Gould and H. C. Richter, del^t_ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
]

AQUILA MORPHNOÏDES, _Gould_.
Little Australian Eagle.

_Aquila Morphnoïdes_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part VIII. p. 161.

I shall perhaps better convey an idea of the rarity of this small but true species of _Aquila_, by stating that the specimen from which the accompanying drawing was made, and which forms part of my own collection, is the only one I have ever seen either living or dead. It is the second species of the genus known to inhabit Australia, and it is singular that while the Wedge-tailed Eagle is so common, the present species should be so rare, or, perhaps, so restricted in its range of habitat. This Eagle is as clearly an analogue of the _Aquila pennata_ of Europe, as the Wedge-tailed Eagle is of the Golden. Its specific distinctions from _Aq. pennata_ are its large size, the total absence of the white mark on the shoulder, and the cere and feet being of a lead-colour instead of yellowish-olive.

The part of Australia where I shot the specimen above alluded to, was Yarrundi on the River Hunter, on a portion of Mr. Coxen’s estate near Tooloogan. I was led to the discovery of the bird by finding its nest containing a single egg, upon which it had been sitting for some time. I regret to add, that although I several times visited the nest after killing the bird, all my attempts at procuring the other sex were entirely unsuccessful. The nest was of a large size and was placed close to the hole, about one-fourth of the height from the top of one of the highest gum-trees; the egg was bluish white with very faint traces of brown blotchings, two inches and two lines long by one inch and nine lines broad.

Face, crown of the head and throat blackish brown, tinged with rufous, giving it a striated appearance, bounded in front above the nostrils with whitish; feathers at the back of the head, which are lengthened into a short occipital crest, back of the head, back, and sides of the neck, all the under surface, thighs and under tail-coverts rufous, all but the thighs and under tail-coverts with a stripe of black down the centre of each feather; back, rump and wings brown, the centre of the wing lighter; primaries brownish black, becoming darker at the tip, and barred throughout with greyish buff, which is conspicuous on the under surface, but scarcely perceptible on the upper, except at the base of the inner webs; under surface of the wing mottled with reddish brown and black; tail mottled greyish brown, crossed by seven or eight distinct bars of blackish brown, the tips being lighter; cere and bill lead-colour, passing into black at the tip; eye reddish hazel, surrounded by a narrow blackish brown eyelash; feet and toes very light lead-colour.

The figure is about three-fourths of the natural size.

ICHTHYIAËTUS LEUCOGASTER.

_J & E Gould del^t_ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
]

ICHTHYIAËTUS LEUCOGASTER.
White-bellied Sea-eagle.

_Falco leucogaster_, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 13.—Gmel. Linn., vol.
i. p. 157.—Temm. Pl. Col. 49.

_White-bellied Eagle_, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 33.—Ib. Gen. Hist.,
vol. i. p. 242.

_Haliæetus leucogaster_, Gould, Syn. Birds of Australia, Part III.

_—— —— sphenurus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. 1837, p.
138.—Ib. Syn. Birds of Australia, Part III. young.

I have little doubt that this noble species of Sea-eagle will be found to extend its range over all those portions of the Australian continent that present situations suitable to its peculiar habits. It has been observed along the whole southern coast, from Moreton Bay on the east to Swan River on the west, including Tasmania and all the small islands in Bass’s Straits. It has neither the boldness nor the courage of the Wedge-tailed Eagle, _Aquila fucosa_, whose quarry is frequently the Kangaroo and the Bustard; and although, at first sight, its appearance would warrant the supposition that it pursues the same means for obtaining living prey as the true _Pandion_, by the act of submersion, yet I can affirm that this is not the case, and that it never plunges beneath the surface of the water, but depends almost entirely for its subsistence upon the dead Cetacea, fish, etc., that may be thrown up by the sea and left on the shore by the receding waves; to which, in all probability, are added living mollusks and other lower marine animals: its peculiar province is consequently the sea-shore, and it especially delights to take up its abode on the borders of small bays and inlets of the sea, and rivers as high as they are influenced by the tide; nevertheless, it is to be met with, though more rarely, on the borders of lakes and inland streams, but never in the forests or sterile plains of the interior. As it is almost invariably seen in pairs, it would appear to be permanently mated; each pair inhabiting a particular bay or inlet, to the exclusion of others of the same species. Unless disturbed or harassed, the White-bellied Sea-eagle does not shun the abode of man, but becomes fearless and familiar. Among the numerous places in which I observed it was the Cove of Sydney, where one or two were daily seen performing their aërial gyrations above the shipping and over the tops of the houses: if I mistake not, they were the same pair of birds that found a safe retreat in Elizabeth Bay, skirting the property of Alexander Macleay, Esq., and where they might be frequently seen perched on the bare limb of a tree by the water’s edge, forming an interesting and ornamental addition to the scene. In Tasmania it is especially abundant in D’Entrecasteaux Channel, and along the banks of the Derwent and the Tamar; and there was scarcely one of the little islets in Bass’s Straits but was inhabited by a pair of these birds, which, in these cases, subsisted in a great measure on the Petrels and Penguins, which resort there in great numbers to breed, and which are very easily captured.

With regard to the nidification of the White-bellied Sea-eagle, I could not fail to remark how readily the birds accommodate themselves to the different circumstances in which they are placed; for while on the main land they invariably construct their large flat nest on a fork of the most lofty trees, on the islands, where not a tree is to be found, it is placed on the flat surface of a large stone, the materials of which it is formed being twigs and branches of the Barilla, a low shrub which is there plentiful. While traversing the woods in Recherche Bay, I observed a nest of this species near the top of a noble stringy bark tree (_Eucalyptus_), the bole of which measured forty-one feet round, and was certainly upwards of 200 feet high; this had probably been the site of a nest for many years, being secure even from the attacks of the natives, expert as they are at climbing. On a small island, of about forty acres in extent, opposite the settlement of Flinders, I shot a fully-fledged young bird, which was perched upon the cone of a rock; and I then, for the first time, discovered my error in characterizing, in the “Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,” and in my “Synopsis,” the bird in this state as a different species, under the name of _Haliæetus sphenurus_, an error which I take this opportunity to correct. The eggs are almost invariably two in number, of a dull white, faintly stained with reddish brown, two inches and nine lines long, by two inches and three lines broad.

This Sea-eagle may be frequently seen floating about in the air above its hunting ground, in circles, with the tips of its motionless wings turned upwards; the great breadth and roundness of the pinions, and the shortness of the neck and tail, giving it no inapt resemblance to a large butterfly.

The sexes are alike in plumage, but the female is considerably larger than her mate.

Adults have the head, neck, all the under surface, and the terminal third of the tail-feathers white; primaries and base of the tail blackish brown, the remainder of the plumage grey; irides dark brown; bill bluish horn-colour, with the tip black; cere, lores, and horny space over the eye bluish lead-colour slightly tinged with green; legs and feet yellowish white; nails black.

The young have the head, back of the neck and throat light buff; all the upper surface and wings light chocolate-brown, each feather tipped with buffy white; tail light buffy white at the base, passing into deep brown towards the tip, which is white; chest brown, each feather margined with buff; abdomen mingled buff and brown, the latter colour occupying the margins of the feathers; under tail-coverts, and the under surface of the tail-feathers white; bill brown; feet yellowish white.

The Plate represents an old and a young bird, the former about half the natural size.

HALIASTUR LEUCOSTERNUS.

_J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._
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HALIASTUR LEUCOSTERNUS, _Gould_.
White-breasted Sea-Eagle.

_White-breasted Rufous Eagle_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 218.

_Haliæëtus leucosternus_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p.
138; and in Syn. Birds of Australia, Part III.

_Girrenera_, Aborigines of New South Wales.

_Me-ne-̏u-roo_, Aborigines of the Cobourg Peninsula.

In size and in the general markings of its plumage, this beautiful species is more closely allied to the _Falco Ponticerianus_ of Latham, than to any other; but the total absence of the coloured stripe down the centre of the white feathers which clothe the head, neck and breast of the Australian bird, at once distinguishes it from its Indian ally.