C ACCIPITBES. 



whole of under surface of body very dark blackisli brown tinged 

 with chocolate in certain lights, centres of feathers darkest 

 flanks and abdomen washed with chocolate ; thighs deep rufous 

 under tail-coverts blackish brown, a few tipped witli fulvous 

 bill blackish brown ; cere greenish yellow, legs and feet greenish 

 white. Total length 20'5 inches, wing 15'3, tail 10, tarsi 3'8, 

 middle toe 1"55, hind toe 0'8. 



Habitat. — Derby (IS". W. Austr.), Eockingham Bay, Wide 

 Bay District, Dawson Eiver, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 

 Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria, South Australia, 

 Tasmania, New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia. 



A 1 2 ad. sk. King George's Sound, West Australia. Col. 



A 2 j* not quite ad. sk. ,, ,, ,, Col. 



A 3 9 ^fl- inntd. Botany, New South Wales. Pres, 



C 1 (J juv. sk. Victoria. Pch. 



2. ASTUR. 



1. Astur cinereus. 



Tht Grey-hacked Goshawk. 



Sparvius cinereus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet., torn, x, p. 338 (1817). 



Astur rail, Yi(j. and Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xv, p. 180 (1827) ; 



Bonap., Consp. Av., tom. i, p. 31 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-list Bds., 



vol. i, p. 30 (1869). 

 Astur novoe-hollandia?, Goidd, Bds. Austr., vol. i, pi. 14(1848). 

 Leucospizia raii, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 67 ; Gould, Handhk. Bds. 



Austr., vol. i, p. 37, sp. 14 (1865). 

 Astur cinereus, Sharps, Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 117 (1874); 



Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, X.S. W., vol. ii, p. 177 (1S77); id. Tab. 



List. Austr. Bds., p. 1 (1888) ; Xorth, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., 



vol. iii, 2nd ser., p. 1773 (1889) ; id. Nests and Eggs, Austr. Bds., 



p. 2 (1889). 



