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maries, secondaries, and greater coverts dark brown, slightly 

 fringed with white; the base of the inner webs of these 

 feathers white, upon which the dark colouring encroaches in a 

 series of points resembling the teeth of a large saw ; face white, 

 with a slight moustache of dark brown from each angle of the 

 mouth ; chest and flanks bufFy white, with the shaft of each 

 feather dark brown ; abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers for two-thirds of their length 

 from the base grey ; remaining portion of all but the two 

 centre feathers white, crossed near the tip by a broad distinct 

 band of deep black, the band being only on the inner web 

 of the external feather ; bill horn-colour near the base, black 

 towards the tip ; base of the under mandible yellowish ; cere 

 and orbits yellowish orange ; legs orange. 



The female has all the upper surface, wings, and tail cinna- 

 mon-red ; each feather of the former with a dark patch of 

 brown in the centre, assuming the shape of arrow-heads on the 

 wing-coverts ; the scapularies irregularly barred with the same, 

 and the tail with an irregular band near the extremity ; throat, 

 vent, and under tail-coverts white ; remainder of the under 

 surface reddish buff, with a stripe of brown down the centre 

 of each feather. 



Genus LEUCOSPIZA, Kaup. 

 Sp. 14. LEUCOSPIZA RAIL 



New Holland Goshawk. 



Astur Rail, Vig. & Horsf. in Linn. Ti-ans., vol. xv. p. 180. 



Falco clarus, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. 13 ? 



Fair Falcon, Tiath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 54? 



Astur Novse-HollandisB, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. i. pi. 14. 



The only part of Australia in which I met with this species 

 was New South Wales, where it would appear to evince a 

 preference for the dense and luxuriant brushes near the 



