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 age, will deny, or doubt, that we have found his nest in New Holland. "At two in the afternoon we set out from Lizard Island to return to the ship (then lying in Endeavour River), and in our way landed upon the low sandy island with trees upon it, which we had remarked in our going out. Upon this island we saw an incredible number of birds, chiefly sea fowl; we found also the nest of an eagle with young ones, which we killed: "and the nest of some other bird, we knew not what, of a most enormous size: it was built with sticks upon the ground, and was no less than six and twenty feet in circumference, and two feet eight inches high." Book 3, chap. 5.

This nest is well proportioned to the Siberian claw, and a bird of correpondent magnitude would be as able to carry off a porpoise as the common eagle is to fly away with a lamb. Endeavour River is unluckily too far from Botany Bay for a party to go there birds-nesting.