198 liUTEUNIN.«. 



brown cross-bars with a small dull rufous spot on the centre of most of them ; thighs fulvous- 

 white, with broad rufous and brown cross-bars. Wing-measurement of male 8-i inches; of 

 female 9^2 inches. 



The usual breeding season in Eastern Australia is from the beginning of September until 

 the end of December, nests with eggs being more common in October. In N<jrth-western 

 .Australia Air. Tom Carter procured a nest with eggs in July. 



Sub-family BUTEONIN^. 



o-erLiis E:K-!n?i3:iso'X"i£ioisoia:is, sharpe. 

 Erythrotriorchis radiatus. 



KUFOUS-BELLIED iiUZZARD. 



Falcn rail uil IIS, Lath., Ind. (_)rn., Suppl. II., p. XII. (I80I). 



Axtiir radliUn.'i, Gould, Bds. Au.str., fol. Vol. I., pi. IG (1848) : id., Haudbk. Bds. Au.str., Vol. I., 

 p. 40 (I8G.J). 



Uro.'<pi:iiis radiatus^ Sharpe, (Ait. Bds. Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. l-''>9 (1874). 



Eriilhri)triiirclii-< radiniu^, .Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 187.5, p. 337 ; id., Hand-1. Bd.s., Vol. I,, p. 254 



(1899). 



Adult .m.\le. — (IfiinTid cnhnir ahun hriijJit nifonx, tin; fealln'fs uf ///•■ lifnd and iiiijip. irilli a 

 liinijiliidiiiid blai-k ■•<lri;iik, tliosr of tJie Imck, xcajnilam, mid rinn/i irdh broad Imii-i'iilufi (i/ackis/i-broicu 

 centre.''; iijiper /i'i7u/-CiiVi'ii.-< nimiJar, but llnir margin.'; of a brii/liler minus; quills ns/ii/d/roirn icith 

 darker brmni crossJjars, tin: inin'r irrb.'i of tin' npical pnrtmn of Ihs priiiiarb'x darker, llnir outer inehs 

 ivnshed with grey : tail -feat hers nslni-bnnrn, pnler at the tip.-', irith dark broiru cros.fbars ; elip.eks and 

 throat pide rufijio.''diuff, n-ith blackish slinft streaks', ri iiminder of the ii/iider surface bright rufous, 

 each feather nurrou'lij streaked ivith black down the centre; thighs aiid iiiider tail-corerts uniform 

 bright riifms, the shafts of some of the latter dark brown; bill dark horn colour ; leys and feel pale 

 yellow ; iris rich, yeduw. Total leng/h. JO inches, iving l.'pJ, tail 9'>, bill I'l, tarsus -i. 



.\dult FBM.II.IC. — similar in pi 11 mage to the male but larger. Total length .?■! inches, n-'iiig Hi- J. 

 tail 10-75, bdl 1 .;, tarsus .:■■!. 



Distrihuiion. — Kort-hein Territory of South Australia, (Kieensland, New South Wales. 



"T'S) ATH.VM originally described this species in his " Inde.x Ornithologicus " under the name 

 I A, of Fcdeo radiittiis, which is founded on the Radiated Falcon of his '• General Synopsis of 

 Birds." The late Dr. R. B. Sharpe, in his " History of the Collections in the British Museum,"* 

 referring to Watling's painting of this species under the name of " New Falcon," remarks : — " On 

 this picture is founded the description of Latham's Radiated Falcon, and the figure given by him is 

 adapted from Watling's picture. Thus the latter becomes the type. . . . Another painting of 

 the Radiated Falcon has attached the following note by Watling: — 'The skin of this bird I 

 found nailed up to a settler's hut. It is the only one of its kind ever seen. The drawing is a 

 faithful copy. The settler who shot it says the iris was brown, and remarked that he never saw 

 any bird fly with such swiftness. Its claws, which were long, small and sharp, when he took it 

 up it drove quite through the ends of his fingers. A new Falcon. This bird measures from the 

 bill to the extremity of the tail twenty-four inches.' It will be seen that Latham copied the 

 notes, but did not say who had written them." 



* Hist. Coll. Brit. Mus., Bds., pp. iio-ii (1906). 



