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ACCIPITEES. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male but a little 

 larger. Total length 22 inches, wing 15'8, tibia* 'i'34, tarsus* 

 3'3, hind claw along the curve I'S, across the curve 1"4. 



'Habitat. Eockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, 

 New South Wales, Interior. 



Measurements of average-sized specimens from different localities. 



A 1 2 ad. sk. 



A 2 (? ad. sk. 



A 3 c? ad. sk. 



A 4 2 ad. sk. 



Dawson River, Queensland. 



Wide Bay, Queensland. 

 Cairns, N. E. Queensland. 



Pch. 

 Pch. 

 Pch. 

 Col. 



4. ACCIPITER. 

 1. Accipiter cirrhocephalus. 



The Collared Sparroif-liawlc. 

 New Holland Sparrow-hawk, Lath., Gen. Sipi. SuppL, vol. ii, p. 51 



(1801). 

 Falco nisus, rar., Latli., Ind. Orn. SuppL, vol, ii, p. xi (1801). 

 Sparvius cirrhocephalus, Viell. Nouv. Diet d'llist., torn x, p. 329 



(1817). 

 Accipiter torquatus, Vir/. and Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xv, p. 182 



(1827); Gould, Syn. Bds. Austr. pt. iii (1838) ; Gray, Gen. Bds., 



vol. i, p. 29 (1845) ; Gould, Bds Austr., vol. i, pi. 19 (1848) ; 



Bonap., Consp. Av. tom. i, p. 33 (1850) ; Gould, Handlih. Bds. 



Austr., vol. i, p. 45, sp. 19 (1865); Bamsay, Proc Zool. Soc. 1875, 



p. 579 ; Sharpe, Index. GoukVs Works, p. 3 (1893). 



Urospiza torquata, Kaup, I sis, 1847, p. 181. 



Accipiter cirrhocephalus, Gray, List. Bds. Brit. Mus. Accipitr. 2nd ed., 

 p. 73 (1849) ; SparjK, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol i, p. 141 (1874) ; 

 Gurne.y, Ibis, 1875, pp. 468-475 ; i?a?n.sa?/, Proc. Linn. Soc.,N.S. W., 

 vol. ii, p. 177 (1877) ; Sharpe, Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. Zool., 

 vol. xiii, p. 488 (1878); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. xii, p. 39 

 (1S7S) ; id. Orn. Pap. et Molucc, vol. i, p. 67 (1880) ; Ramsay, Proc. 



* Measurements taken from ad. 9 mounted, the ends of the bones laid bare 



