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secondaries greyish white, barred with dark brown ; throat 

 greyish brown ; breast and all the under surface rufous brown, 

 crossed with numerous white fasciae, which are bounded on 

 each side with an obscure line of dark brown ; thighs rufous, 

 crossed by numerous irregular white lines ; irides bright 

 yellowish orange, surrounded by a yellowish lash ; gape and 

 base of the bill olive green ; tip and the cere greenish yellow ; 

 legs and feet yellow ; claws black. 



The young differ considerably from the adult, having the 

 feathers of the head and back of the neck dark brown, 

 margined with rufous brown ; the remainder of the upper 

 surface deep brown, each feather with a crescent- shaped mark 

 of rufous at the extremity ; tail brown, crossed with obscure 

 bars of a darker tint, and tipped with whitish brown ; inner 

 webs of the primaries fawn-colour, barred with dark brown ; 

 throat buffy white, with a stripe of dark brown down the 

 centre of each feather j breast buSy white, each feather 

 crossed by two bands of dark brown, the last of which 

 assumes a triangular form ; abdomen and flanks buiFy white, 

 crossed by irregular bands of dark brown, which are blotched 

 with rufous brown in the centre ; thighs and under tail- 

 coverts pale rufous, crossed by similar bands ; irides beautiful 

 yellow ; cere, base of the bill, and gape bluish lead-colour ; 

 point of the bill blackish brown ; legs gamboge-yellow. 



Sp. 18. ASTUR CRUENTUS, Gould. 



West-Australian Goshawk. 



Astur cruentus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, part x. 1842, p. 113. 

 Kil-lin-gil-lee and Mat-wel-itch, Aborigines of the mountain districts 



of Western Australia (Gilbert). 

 Good-jee-lum, Aborigines around Perth, Western Australia (Gilbert). 



Astur cruentus, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. i. pi. 18. 

 This Hawk is intermediate in size between the Astur op- 



