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white, covered nearly all over with reddish brown ; in some spe- 

 cimens an entire wash of this colour extends over nearly half 

 the eo-or while others are blotched or freckled with it in small 

 patches over the surface generally : their medium length is 

 two inches and two lines, and breadth one inch and six lines. 



Crown of the head ferruginous brown, with a fine black 

 line down the centre of each feather ; a streak of black from 

 the base of the lower mandible down each side of the cheek ; 

 ear-coverts brown ; throat, chest, centre of the abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts pale buff, with a fine line of brown down 

 each side of the shaft of every feather ; flanks ferruginous, each 

 feather crossed with spots of buffy white; thighs dark brown, 

 crossed like the flanks, but with redder spots ; centre of the 

 back reddish brown ; scapularies and wing-coverts brown, 

 crossed with conspicuous bars and spots of ferruginous ; tail 

 brown, crossed with ferruginous bars, and tipped with light 

 brown ; primaries blackish brown, margined on their inner 

 webs with large oval-shaped spots of bufi"; bill light lead-colour, 

 passing into black at the tip ; cere and orbits pale bluish lead- 

 colour ; irides dark brown ; feet light lead-colour. 



During the first autumn the dark markings are of a much 

 deeper hue, and the lighter parts more tinged with yellow, than 

 in the adult state, when the upper surface becomes of a uni- 

 form brown, and the white of the under surface tinged with 

 yellow. 



Sp. 12. HIERACIDEA OCCIDENTALIS, Gould. 

 Western Brown Hawk. 



leraddea occidentalis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc, June 25, 1844. 

 Kar-gyne, Aborigines of the lowland and mountain districts of Western 

 Australia. 



leracidea occidentalis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. i. pi. 12. 



The Hieracidea occidentalis, which is very generally spread 

 over Western and Southern Australia, loves to dwell in 



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