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1 Hall, Nofes on Bird-Skins from N.W. Austra'ia. 63 



89. MiLVUS AFFINIS (Gould), Kite. 



Milviis affinis^ Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. i., pi. 21 (1848) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 323 (1874). 



One adult skin, 20/11/01. 



[The Kites have nearly all left Livuringa for a time (i2'iO/'oi). 

 To-day (8/2/00) the Kites were back in Livuringa in great 

 numbers. They seem to leave here in October, and return about 

 February- March, and only an odd one is to be seen in the hot 

 season. Mr. M'Larty, the manager of the station, gives this as 

 his opinion, and considers they go to spend the wet season about 

 the centre of the Kimberley goldfields (the high country about 

 Hall's Creek), On 14/3/00 they were in large numbers about 

 Livuringa station.] 



90. HIERACIDEA BERIGORA (Vigors and Horsfield), Striped 



Brown Hawk. 



Hieracidea orientaiis, Gould. Birds Aust., fol., vol. i., pi. 12 (1848). 

 Hieracidea beri^ora, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 421 

 (1874). 

 Adult male, 30/6/01. 



[The Brown Hawk and Kestrel are here (Upper Livuringa, 

 3/1/01), in great numbers, feeding upon the over-large popula- 

 tion of well-developed grasshoppers.] 



91. Hieracidea orientalis (Schlegel), Brown Hawk. 



Hieracidea beri^ora^ Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. i., pi. xi. (1848). 

 Hieracidea orieittalis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 422 

 (1874). 

 Immature male, 28/8/00; immature skin, 2/7/01. 



92. ASTUR APPROXIMANS (Vigors and Horsfield), Goshawk. 



Astur approxinians^ Gould, Birds Aust., fol, vol. i., pi. 17(1848); 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 126 (1874). 



Immature skin, 12/1/01. 



93. ACCIPITER CIRRHOCEPHALUS (Vieillot), Sparrow-hawk. 



Accipiier torqiiaties, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. i., pi. 19 (1848). 



Accipiter cirrhocephaliis^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., fol., vol. i., 

 p. 14T (1874). 



Two immature skins, unsexed, 17/11/01, 24/1 i/oi. 



94. NiNOX BOOBOOK (Latham), Boobook Owl. 



Athefte booboo/c, Gould, Birds Aust., fol., vol. i., pi. 32 (1848). 

 Nifiox boobook^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. i., p. 169 (1875). 

 Immature skin, 6/1/01. Length of wing, 11.2 inches. 



[Three generall}^ in one of the house fig trees, December- 

 January, 1900-01, calling softly in the day time] ; two now. 



