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Genus ACCIPITER, Brisson. 

 Sp.l9. ACCIPITER TORQUATUS, %. and Horsf. 



Collared Sparrow-Hawk. 



Falco torquatus, Cuv. — Temm. PI. Col,, 43 (adult), 93 (young). 

 Accipiter torquattis, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p, 182. 

 Nisus australis, Less. Traite d^Orn., p. 61. 

 Sparvius cirrhocephalus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d^Hist. Nat., torn. x. p. 328. 



tricolor, Vieill., ibid. p. 329. 



Falco melanops, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. 12 ? 



Sparvius melanops, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn. x. p. 239? 



Astur (Micronisus) torquatus, Kaup, Mus. Senckenb., 1845, p. 259. 



Nisus [Urospiza] torquatus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 181. 



Accipiter cirrhocephalus, List of Birds in Brit. Mus. Coll., part 1, 2nd 



edit., p. 73. 

 Bilbil, Aborigines of New South Wales. 

 Jil-lee-jil-lee, Aborigines of the lowland, and 

 Min-min of the Aborigines of the mountain districts of Western 



Australia. 

 Little Hawk, Colonists of Swan River. 



Accipiter torquatus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. i. pi. 19. 



This species is especially abundant in Tasmania and New 

 South Wales, and would appear to enjoy a wide extent of 

 range, since I have either seen or received specimens of it 

 from every part of Australia, with the single exception of the 

 north coast. Gilbert's notes inform me that he saw it there, 

 but he did not obtain a specimen. 



In its habits and disposition it has all the characteristics of 

 its European ally the Accipiter nisus, whose boldness and 

 daring spirit while in pursuit of its quarry have been so often 

 described that they are familiar to every one ; the sexes also 

 exhibit the same disparity of size, the female being nearly as 

 large and powerful again as her mate ; hence the Quails and 

 the numerous species of Honey-eaters find in her a most 



