12 ACCIPITEES. 



Adult male. The same in plumage as Asfur novce-hollandics, 

 beinc "uniformly white like that species, but very much smaller; 

 cere yellow ; bill black ; feet citron yellow ; iris orange-yellow. 

 Total length 12'3 inches, culmen 1"1, wing 7'8, tail 5*9, tarsus 

 2-25, middle toe 1-2. {Mus Lugd)y 



JLab. New Guinea and adjacent Islands.* 



[I have never seen the specimen obtained in Torres Strait, and 

 referred to by Dr. Ramsay in the Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales, f as belonging to this species. 

 Neither can I find in the Museum or Dobroyde Collection any 

 adult specimen of AVhite Goshawk, from Cape York, agreeing 

 in size with the smaller dimensions of A. leucosomics, from New 

 Guinea. A young male, A. novte-hoUandice, from Cape York 

 measures, total length 15 inches, wing 9"5, tail 7'4, bill 1"2, 

 tarsus 2'6. An adult female in the Macleay Museum, from the 

 same locality, shot by the Curator, Mr. George Masters, on the 

 18th of September, 1875, measures — total length 19-5 inches, 

 wing 11"5, tail 8"8. This is only 0"7 inches smaller in wing 

 measurement than our largest specimen from New South Wales. 

 The smallest adult male of A. nova hollandice we have in the 

 collection at present was obtained at Cairns, North-eastern 

 Queensland, and has the wing and tail feathers much worn at the 

 tips ; it measures — total length 14'8 inches, wing 9'5, tail 7'6. 

 Dr. Sharpe's measurements of the type specimen of A. leucosonius 

 (an adult male) are as follows — total length 12"3 inches, wing 

 7-8, tail 5-9, tarsus 2-25, middle-too 1-2.] 



Sahitat. New Guinea and adjacent islands (Sharpe, Salvadori), 

 Cape York, Islands of Torres Strait (Ramsay). 



4. Astur approximans. 



Tlie Australian Goshawk. 

 Falco radiatus, Te}nm. PL Col. ton. «., pi. 123 {lS23)juv. 

 Astur radiatus, Viy. and Horsf. Trans. Linn. See, vol. xv, p. 181 



(1827) i«*'. ^ 

 Astur fasciatus, id. torn, cit., p. 181 (1827), ad. 5^ and J. 



Astur approximans, id. torn, cit., p. 181 (1827) juv. 2 > Go^dd, Syii. 

 Bds. AuMr., pt. 3 (1838); id. Bds. AusL, vol. i, pi. 17 (1848); 

 Sturt Exp. Centr. Austi:, vol. ii, App., p. 15 (1849) ; Gould, 

 Handbk., Bds. Austr., vol. i, p. 41, sp. 17 (1SG5) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Bds., Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 126 (1874) ; Bamsay, Proc. Zool. Sac, 

 1875, p. 579; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. i, p. 45 

 (1876); Lerjge, Proc. Boy. Soc, Tas., p. 237 (1886); Bamsay, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. i, 2nd ser., p. 1085 (1887), Derby, 

 N.W.A.; id. Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 1 (1888); North, Proc. 



* Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. vol. i, p. 119 (1874). 



t Uainsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W , vol. iii, p. 248 (1379). 



