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298. 



Size moderate ; wing ^ 13 in., $ 14 in. ; 

 above sandy brown, most of the feathers 

 edged with rufous ; head with blackish 

 shaft-stripes ; tail ashy brown, tipped 

 with white and barred with rufous ; 

 below creamy white with brownish shaft- 

 streaks, and a dark brown moustachial 

 stripe ; thighs, axilliaries and inner lower 

 wing-coverts chestnut. 

 leracidea herigora berigora Vigors & Horsf., 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, xv., p. 184 (1827). [Neiej 

 South Wales, types in Brit. Mus.] 

 Striped Brown Hawk. 



Interior of 

 S. Queens- 

 land and 

 N.S. Wales. 



298a. 



Less rufous above, more uniform darker 

 brown, without shaft stripes ; below with- 

 out shaft-stripes, the sides blackish brown, 

 often uniform blackish brown. 

 leracidea berigora orientalis Sharpe Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., i., p. 422 (1874). [New 

 S. Wales, ex. Schl. Naum. 1855, p. 254.]* 

 Brown Haw'k. 



Coastal 

 districts of 

 S. Queens- 

 land and 

 N.S. Wales, 

 Whole of 

 Victoria. 



Smaller ; wing (sex ?) 12.85 in. ; above 

 browTi with buffy tips. 

 298b. leracidea berigora tasmanica Math., Bds. Tasmania. 

 Austr., v., p. 276 (1916). {Tasmania.^ 

 Tasmanian Brown Hawk. 



Smaller. 

 298c. leracidea berigora occidentalis Gould, P.Z.S. 

 1844, p. 105. [Perth.^ 

 Western Brown Hawk. 



S.W. 

 Australia. 



Wing $ 14.50 in. ; dark phase ; above and 

 below smoky black or fuliginous brown. 



* For the forms of this group, all very doubtfully distinct, see Mathews's 

 Birds of Australia. 



