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Show 1867.] MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON BAZA SUBCRISTATA. 393 tail-coverts of a bluish slate-grey. The irides in both sexes are of a beautiful deep yellow. I was fortunate enough to procure three eggs of this species, taken by Mr. MacGillivray's black fellow " Daddy." Mr. MacGillivray informs m e that, when Daddy was taking the eggs, the female dashed so close to him that he killed it with his tomahawk. The male bird belonging to the nest had been shot the day before. The nest was a comparatively small structure of sticks placed upon a horizontal bough, at a considerable distance from the ground. It contained three eggs, much smaller than I expected to find them. They have the peculiarity of being very much rounded at the larger end, are short upon the whole, and have the thin end pointed abruptly. Their average length is ly-^ inch by ly4^ inch in breadth; the ground-colour greenish white (the inside of the shell being of a pale steel-green), very sparingly smeared and blotched or spotted with light brown; one specimen has but two or three spots of a light brownish tint. I know of no districts frequented by so many species of the Hawk-tribe as the brushes and flats in the neighbourhood of the Richmond and Clarence Rivers. During the first fifteen days of our sojourn in those parts we met with no less than fifteen species, well identified, besides one or two others, the species of which I was not quite sure of. Seven of these were skinned; others, being very common in the neighbourhood, were allowed to remain in peace. The following is the list of Hawks met with during our journey from the mouth of the Clarence River, via Grafton, to Lismore on the Richmond River:- Aquila audax. Plentiful. Polioaetus leucogaster. Several pairs seen. Haliastur sphenurus. Shot. leucosternus. Only one seen. Falco lunulatus. Shot. Hieracidea berigora. Shot. Leucospiza novce-hollandiee. Shot (iris blood-red). Astur radiatus. Shot (iris bright yellow). approximans. Shot. Accipiter torquatus. Shot. Milvus affinis. Several seen. Elanus axillaris. Shot (iris blood-red). Baza subcristata. Shot (iris bright yellow). Circus jardinii. Shot. assimilis. Two specimens seen. To these may be added Milvus isurus, Falco melanogenys, and Gypoictinia melanosternon, all of which, I believe, were procured by Mr. MacGillivray in the Clarence River district. Of Astur radiatus I only obtained one specimen, a male; it seems to be a very rare species, and one which I had never before met with. Total length 23 inches. This specimen lost its life by coming too near our camp in pursuit of some Parrakeets (Trichoglossus multicolor), which it |