40 ACCIPITEES. 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. ii, 2nd sen, p. 166 (1888) ; 

 id Tab. List Austr. Bds., p. 1 (1SS8) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W., vol. iii, 2nd ser., p. 1773 (1889); id Nests and Eggs 

 Austr. Bds., p. 10, pi. iv, figs. 5 and 6 (1889) ; Salvad., Agguinte, 

 Orn. Pap. et. Molitcc, p. 12 (1889) ; Cox and Ham., Proc. Jjinn. 

 Soc, N.S. W., vol. iv, 2nd ser., p. 398 (1890) ; Oates, in Hume's 

 Nests and Eggs Ind. Bds., 2nd edit., vol. iii, p. 176 (1890) ; Sharpe, 

 Index Gould's Wo7-ks, p. 205 (1893) ; Gurney, jun.. Cat. Bds. 

 Prey, p. 22 (1894) ; North and Keartl., Aves. Horn Exped. Centr. 

 Austr.,-p. 55 (1896); Keartl., Vict. Nat., vol. xiii, No. 5, p. 61 

 (1896) ; Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., 2nd ser., vol. xvi, p. 58 

 (1896). 



Adult male. All the upper surface blackish brown, the median 

 wing-coverts and margins of the feathers being lighter, the shaft- 

 stripes blackish ; primaries and secondaries blackish brown, the 

 first six primaries black at the tips, the remainder and the inner 

 secondaries slightly margined with light brown, indistinct bars of 

 blackish brown showing on the inner webs of all the quills ; the 

 inner webs of the outer series of the wing-coverts, of a few of the 

 innermost secondaries, and of the scapulars, becoming white at 

 the base and barred with dark brown ; wing-coverts brown barred 

 wath blackish brown, base of the feathers white ; back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts dark brown fading into a little lighter brown 

 on the margins, the bases white, shaft-stripes blackish brown ; 

 tail slightly forked, dark brown above indistinctly barred with 

 blackish, the inner webs becoming lighter towards the base, and 

 freckled with dark brown ; under surface of the tail ashy brown 

 freckled and barred with darker brown ; under tail-coverts rufous 

 brown, with blackish shaft-lines ; the head and neck above brown 

 washed with rufous and streaked with blackish shaft-lines ; lores 

 and ear-coverts dark brown, the latter tinged with rufous brown ; 

 chin whitish ; the throat light rufous brown, remainder of the 

 under surface of the body dull rufous brown darker on the chest, 

 sides, and flanks, all the feathers having a blackish shaft-line ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous brown striped with blackish down the 

 centre, the outer series, and the bases of the primaries ashy, 

 irregularly shaded or barred with dark brown ; quills blackish 

 brown, the inner webs especially, towards the base lighter ; bill 

 ll)lack ; base and cere yellowish ; feet and legs yellowish ; iris 

 hazel. Total length 19-5 inches, wing IS'S, tail {to tip of outer 

 feathers) 10, tarsus 2'1, middle toe (without claw) I'O, inner 

 toe 0-9, outer I'lS. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in size and color. 



Yoting. The young may be distinguished by all the feathers 

 being tipped with rufous, the head and neck 'rufous margined 

 with brown and striped with blackish shaft-lines ; under surface 



