The accumulation of so large a mass of materials is readily accounted for when we remember that the bird is in the habit of resorting to the same eyry for a long succession of years, and of annually carrying additional materials to reconstruct the nest.
I myself found and took young birds of this species from similar nests placed on the points of rocks and promontories of the islands in Bass’s Straits.
Genus Haliastur, Selby.
The range of the members of this genus extends over Australia and all the islands to India.
| 4. Haliastur leucosternus, Gould | Vol. I. Pl. [4]. |
- Falco Ponticerianus, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pl. 389.
- Haliaëtus (Ictinoaëtus) leucosternon, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 277.
Confined, so far as I am aware, to Australia, and forming a beautiful representative of the Haliastur Ponticerianus of India.
| 5. Haliastur sphenurus | Vol. I. Pl. [5]. |
- Milvus sphenurus, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 211.
- Haliaëtus (Ictinoaëtus) canorus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 277.
Inhabits all parts of Australia yet visited by travellers, even the Depôt in the interior.