25. UE09PIZIAS. 159 



c". Sole of foot covered witli rugose and 



thorny spicules (like an Osprey) 31. Busarellus, 



d". Soles of feet ordinary, smooth. p. 210. 



c'". Wing falling short of tail by less than 



hind toe (without claw) 32. Buteogalltts, 



d'". Distance between tips of wing and tail p. 212. 



greater than hind toe 33. Ububitinga, 



d'. A crest from four to five inches long. p. 212. 



e". Distance between summit of nostril and 

 culmen less than length of nostril itself. 

 «'". Tan short, not three times as long as 



tarsus 34. Harpyhaliaeti's, 



/'". Tail very long,'more than four times as p. 221. 



long as tarsus 35. Mobphnus, p. 222. 



f". Distance between summit of nostril and 



culmen greater than length of nostril itself 3G. Thrasaetus, 



p. 223. 



25. TJROSPIZIAS. „, 



Type. 



Urospiza, Kaup, Mus. Senckenh. iii. p. 259 (1845) U. radiatus. 



Range. Eastern and Central Australia, from N". S. Wales to Port 

 Essington, excepting the Cape York peninsula, in which direction 

 only known from lat. 40°. 



1. Urospizias radiatus. 



Eadiated Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 53. pi. 121 (1801). 



Falco radiatus, LafJi. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. 12 (1801). 



Sparvius radiatus, JleilL iV. Diet. x. p. 340 (1817). 



Haliaetus calevi, Vif/. 4' Horsf. Tram. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 186 (1827). 



Nisus radiatus, Less. 3Ia». d'Orii. p. 97 (1828). 



Astur radiatus, Grai/, Ann. N. H. xi. p. 189 (1843) ; Gould, B. Austr. 

 i. pi. 16 (1848) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 27 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 31 

 (1850); Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 119 (1855); Schl. Mm. P.-B. Astures, 

 p. 15 (1862) ; Gould, 'Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 441 (1865) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 29 (1869). 



Accipiter radiatus, Gould, Ann. N. H. xi. p. 335 (1843). 



Urospiza radiata, Kaup, Mus. Senck. iii. p. 259 (1845). 



Astur testaceus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 367, et Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 66. 



Urospizia tricolor, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 



Adult mule. Above bright rufous, the feathers of the head and 

 neck mesially streaked with black ; all the feathers of the upper 

 surface black in the centre, rufous on the margins ; the upper tail- 

 coverts almost entirely rufous ; quills dark brown, externally shaded 

 with ashy brown, the secondaries washed with rufous before their 

 tips, which are white, shafts of primaries whitish, under surface of 

 wing ashy white near the base, with irregular mottling of dark 

 brown, as if the remains of bars ; tail clear greyish ash-colour, 

 tipped with pale rufous and washed with bright rufous near the 

 base, all the feathers irregularly barred with dark brown, the sub- 

 terminal band being the most distinct ; under surface of tail whitish, 

 washed with rufous near the base of the inner webs, the cross bars 

 very indistinctly indicated ; under surface of body bright rufous, the 

 throat and fore part of cheeks paler and more ochraceous, aU the 



