+*312. Ieracidea berigora berigora (Vigors & Horsf.) 
312a. 
312b. 
SIG: 
212 
Trans. Linn. Soc., xv., p. 184 (1827). [New 
South Wales, type in Brit. Mus.] 
Striped Brown Hawk. 
Size moderate ; wing 3 330, 2 355 mm. ; 
above sandy brown, most of the feathers 
edged with rufous; head with blackish 
shaft-stripes ; tail ashy brown, tipped 
with white and barred with rufous ; below 
creamy white with brownish shaft-streaks, 
and a dark brown moustachial stripe ; 
thighs, axilliaries and inner lower wing- 
coverts chestnut. 
Ievacidea berigora orientalis Sharpe, Cat. 
Bds. Brit. Mus., 1., p. 422 (1874). [New 
S. Wales, ex Schl. Naum. 1855, p. 254.]* 
Brown Hawk. 
Less rufous above, more uniform darker 
brown, without shaft stripes ; below with- 
out shaft-stripes, the sides blackish brown, 
often uniform blackish brown. [Possibly 
only dark phase of J. berigora berigora.| 
Ievacidea berigora tasmanica Math., Bds. 
Austr., v., p. 276 (1916).  [Tasmania.] 
Tasmanian Brown Hawk. 
Smaller; wing (sex?) 325 mm.; above 
brown with buffy tips ; below white, with 
dark shatt-streaks and some brown tips. 
Teracidea berigora occidentalis Gould, P.Z.S. 
1844, p. 105. [Perth.] 
Western Brown Hawk. 
Interior of 
S. Queensland 
and 
N.S. Wales. 
Coastal districts 
of S. Queens- 
land and 
N.S. Wales ; 
whole of 
Victoria. 
Tasmania. 
S.W. Australia. 
1 For the forms of this group, all very doubtfully distinct, see Mathews’s 
Birds of Australia. 
