24 ACCIPITEES. 



Aquila fucosa, Vig. Zool Journ. , vol i, p. 337 (182-4) ; Gould, Syn. Bds. Austr. 

 pt. iii (1838); id. Bds. Austr., vol. i, pi. i (1848); Sturt, Exped. Centr. 

 Austr., vol. ii, App., p. 12 (1849) ; Gidlivcr, Proc. Zool. Sac. (1875), p. 

 491 ; Sharpe, Index Gotdd'.'i Worts, p. 16 (1893). 



Aquila audax, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Kat. Hist., vol. xi, p. 189 (1842) ; id. 

 Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 14 (1845) ; Gurney, Ibis., 1860, p. 171 ; id. Ibis., 

 1862, p. 208 ; Gould, Handbk. Bds. Austr., vol. i, p. 8, sp. i (1865) ; 

 Gray, Rand-list Bds., vol. i, p. 11 (1869) ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1875, p. 578 ; Broadb., Proc. Boy. Soc, Queensland, vol. i, p. 93 (1894, 

 Cape York) ; id. op. cit., vol. ii, p. 119 (18S6) ; id. op. cit., vol. iii, p. 24 

 (1887); id. op. cit., vol. v, p. 14 (1889); Iforth, Nests and Eggs, Austr. 

 Bds., p. 5, pi. i, fig. i (1889); id. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vol. iii, 

 2nd ser., p. 1773 (1889) ; Norton, Bull, No. 1, Dept. Agri., N.S. W., p. 

 246 (1890) ; Cox and Ham., Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. iv, 2nd ser., 

 p. 398 (1890); Sharpe, Index Gould's Worti, p. 16 (1893); Newton, 

 Diet. Bds., pt. i, p. 177 (1893) ; Keartland, Aves, Horn Exped., Centr. 

 Austr , p. 106 (1896); id. Vict. Nat., vol. xiii. No, 5, p. 59 (1896) ; 

 Stirling, Antliro., Horn Exped., Centr. Austr., pp. 17-25 (1896); 

 Sclater, List Vert. Anim. Zool. Gard., 9th ed., p. 390 (1896). 



Uroaetus fucosus, Kavp, Class!/. Sang. u. Vog., p. 121 (1844). 



Aquila cuneicaudata, Brehm, Isis, 1845, p. 356. 



Uroaetus audax, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 231 (1874); Gurney, 

 List Diurn. Bds. Prey, p. 57 (1884) ; Legge, Proc Roy. Soc, Tas., 

 vol. p. 237 (1886) ; Gurney, jun.. Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 23 (1894). 



Aquila {Ui'oaetus) audax, Ramsay, Proc Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. ii, p. 177 

 (1877) ; id. Ted). List Atistr. Bds., p. i (1888). 



Adult female. Above blackish-brown, all the feathers vphite at 

 the base ; hind neck and nape tawny-chestnut ; median wing- 

 coverts ashy-brown, centered with blackish ; primaries black ; 

 remainder of the quill feathers of the wine;s and the tail blackish, 

 crossed near the tips with ashy-brown bars, and margined with 

 brown at the tips ; the basal portion of the inner webs light-ash, 

 almost white in the tail feathers, and mottled with white in those 

 of the wings; the feathers of the back and rump all more or less 

 tipped with fulvous-brown ; upper tail-coverts light-brown, 

 shaded with ashy on their margins. The whole of the under 

 surface blackish-brown, each feather more or less distinctly 

 tipped or margined with light-brown ; under tail-coverts bufEy- 

 brown. Cere and orbits whity-brown ; bristles black; bill pale 

 horn-brown, black at the tip and for a short distance along the 

 culmen; feet yellowish; claws blackish horn-colour; iris hazel. 

 Total length, 3 feet G inches, tail 17, wing 257, bill from 

 posterior margin of cere 2-6, from anterior margin of cere 27, 

 lieight from culmen to lower margin 1-2 ; tarsus 4-8, hind toe 

 2-1, its claw 2-G, middle toe 3-3, its claw IT. 



