2 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE 



Haliastur leucosternus, var. 



Haliastur leucosternus, G. R. Gray, List of B. B.M. i. p. 13. 

 Falco ponticerianus, Shaw, Nat. Misc. pi. 389. 

 Halia'etus leucosternus, Gould, Proc. Z. S. 1837, p. 138; B. of 

 Austr. i. pi. 4. 



Halia'etus (Ictinoa'etus) leucosternus, Kaup. 

 New Ireland (Carteret Harbour). 



Haliastur sphenurus. 



Milvus sphenurus, Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. xx. p. 564. 

 Halia'etus canorus, Vig. & Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 187. 

 Haliastur'! sphenurus, Gould, B. of Austr. i. pi. 5. 

 New Caledonia (Port S. Vincent). 



Accipiter approximans. 



Astur approximans, Vig. & Horsf. Linn. Trans, xv. p. 181 ; Gould, 

 B. of Austr. i. pi. 17. 



New Caledonia (Island of Nu). 



Accipiter haplochrous. 



Accipiter haplochrous, Sclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 275. pi. 8. 

 New Caledonia (Island of Nu). 



Accipiter rufitorciues. B.M. 



Astur rufitorques, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 68. 

 Accipiter rufitorques, Pucher. Voy. au Pole Sud, i. p. 49. 

 Voy. au Pole Sud, Ois. t. 2. f. 2. 

 U. S. Expl. Exped. pi. 2. f. 1, 2. 

 ' Mann levu ' of the natives. 



Feejee or Fiji or Fedjee or Fidjee or Fidschi Islands, or lies Viti 

 (Ovolau). 



Circus assimilis. 



Circus assimilis, Jard. & Selby, 111. of Orn. pi. 51 ; Cass. U. S. 

 Expl. Exped. (1858) p. 101. 



Circus approximans, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 64. 



Feejee Islands (Venua or Vanua Levu or Tacanova or Paoo or 

 Kautaou) . 



Strigid^e. 



Athene Forsterii. 



Strix bakkamunal, Forst. Descr. &c. pp. 157, 256. 

 Athene Forsteni (Forsteri), Pr. B. Consp. Av. i. p. 42. 

 Strix Forst eri, (Bp.) Hartl. Wiegm. Arch, fiir Naturg. 1852, 

 p. 130. 



Tonga Islands (Tongatabu or Amsterdam Island, Annamooka or 

 Anamocka or Namouka or Rotterdam Island, Tupai) ; New He- 

 brides or New Cyclades or Archip. de Quiros (Tanna). 



