22. ASTTTR. 119 



Young. Above brown, most of tbe leathers white for their basal 

 half and pale brown at tips ; cheeks pure white and sides of neck 

 white, only slightly mottled with pale brown ; quills brown, with 

 pale rufous brown shafts, the primaries white at the base of the 

 inner web, the inner secondaries white above' for the greater part 

 of the feather ; tail pale brown, narrowly but indistinctly barred 

 with darker brown, the shafts pale rufous brown, changing to pure 

 white, a shade of which is also spreading on the feathers near the 

 shaft of some of the tail-feathers, upper surface of tail dull whitish, 

 the cross bars obsolete ; under surface pure white. Total length 

 16'5 inches, wing 10, tarsus 2-75. 



Adult male. Everywhere pure white ; cere orange-yellow ; gape 

 bright yellow ; bill black ; legs bright yeUow ; iris pale carmine. 

 Total length 16 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 10*4, tail 8, tarsus 2-75. 



Adult femak'. Pure white like the male, but a little larger. Total 

 length 20 inches, wing 12-61, tarsus 3-2. 



ffab. Tasmania, New South "Wales, and South Australia. 



Van Diemen's Land. Dr. Macbraire [P.]. 



Red Wallis Island. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



Australia. Major-Gen. Hardwicke fP.]. 



Australia. Sir D. Cooper, Bart. [P.]. 



Australia. Sir Everard Home, Bart. [P.]. 



Snbsp. a. Astur leucosomus. 



Astur novee bollandife, Schl. Vog. Ned. Ind. pp. 19, 58, pi. 11. fig. 3 

 (1866, nee Gm.). 

 Adidt male. Similar to A. novce hollandice and uniformly white 

 like that species, but very much smaller ; cere yellow ; bill black- 

 feet citron-yellow ; iris orange-yellow. Total length 12-3 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 7-8, taQ 5-9, tarsus 2-25, middle toe 1-2. (Mm. 

 Lugd.) 



Hah. New Guinea and adjacent islands. 



22. Astur haplochrous. 



Accipiter haplochrous, Sclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 275, pi. viii. ; Verr. et 

 Des Murs, Rev. et May. de Zool. 1860, p. 385 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 34 (18G9). 



Nisus haplochrous, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 263 (1872) ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. 

 Revue Accipitr. p. 91 (1873). 



Young. Above brown, the feathers margined with rufous ochre, 

 the hind neck, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts tinged with ochra- 

 ceous buff ; the crown slightly streaked with rufous, with a broad 

 whitish eyebrow, narrowly streaked with dark brown ; sides of the 

 face and neck ochraceous birff, streaked with dark brown, tinged with 

 rufous on the ear-coverts ; under surface of the body clear ochra- 

 ceous buff, the throat streaked with dark brown, forming a line down 

 the centre, the breast marked with oval spots of dark browu, taking 

 the form of arrow-shaped or linear bars on the sides of the body 



