18 ACCIPITEES. 



Gould's A. cruentus, Lesson's specific name of australis must 

 take precedence. As some doubt exists to which species the 

 latter name was applied, I have for the present retained Gould's 

 name of A. cruentus for the small Goshawk from North-west 

 Australia.] 



Habitat. North-west Australia. 



3. ERYTHROTRIORCHIS. 



1. Erythrotriorchis radiatus. 



The Rufous-hdlitd Buzzard. 

 Radiated Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Siqij^L, vol. ii, p. 53, pi. 121 (1801). 

 Falco radiatus, Lath. Ind. Om. Suppl., vol. ii, p. xii. (1801). 



Sparvius radiatus, Vieill. Now. Dirt. d'Hist. Nat. torn, x, p. 340 



(1817). 

 HaliiEtus caleii, Vig. <l- Horsf. Trans. Lin. Soc., vol. xv, p. 186 (1827). 

 Nisus radiatus, Less. Man. d'Orn., p. 97 (1828). 

 Astur radiatus, Gray, Ann. d- Alag. Nat. Hist., vol. xi, p. 189 (1843) ; 



Gould, Bds. Austr., vol. i, pi. 16 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. Eds. vol. i, 



p. 27 (1845); Bonap. Consp. Av. torn, i, p. 31 (1850); Strickl. 



Om. Syn., p. 119 (1855) ; Schleg. Mus-Pays. Bds. Astures, p. 15 



(1862) ; Gotdd, Handbk. Bds. Anstr., vol. 1, p. 40, sp. 16 (1865) ; 



Gray, Hand-list Bds., vol. i, p. 29 (1869) ; Ramsay, Pro. Linn. 



Soc. N.S.W., vol. i, 2nd ser., p. 1141 (1887); North, Nest and 



Eggs Austr. Bds. App., p. 380, pi. ii, fig. 2 (1889) ; Sharpe, Lidex 



Gould's Works, p. 21 (1893). 

 Accipiter radiatus, Goidd, Ann. cC- Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xi, p. 335 



(1843). 

 Astur testaceus, Kaup, I sis, 1847, p. 367 ; id. Contr. Om., 1850, p. 66. 

 Urospizia tricolor, Bonap. Be v. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, p. 538. 

 Urospizias radiatus, Sharp)?, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus.,yo\. i, p. 159(1874). 

 Erythrotriorchis radiatus, Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 364 ; Sharpe, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 338 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1876, pp. 65-66 ; id. List 



Dinrn. Bds.^Prey, p. 45 (1884) ; Gurney (jun.). Cat. Bds. Prey, 



p. 22(1894)." 



Astur (Erythrotriorchis) radiatus, Ramsay, Proc. Lin. Soc, N.S.W., 

 vol. ii, p. 177 (1877) ; id. Tab. List. Bds., p. 1 (1888). 



Adult male. Upper surface of the body and wings (except the 

 quills) bright rufous, duller on the head, brightest on the wing- 

 coverts, shoulders, and upper tail-coverts, the feathers of the 

 head and neck having a black stripe down the centre, all the 

 others centered with black and broadly margined with bright 

 rufous ; the upper tail-coverts are ashy at the base and barred 

 with dark brown, deepest near the tips of the feathers, which are 



