1. Circus 3 



rufous ; down on the legs white mixed with buff, a few bufE pin- 

 feathers showing through the down; on the nape, hind neck, 

 back, scapulars and wing-coverts, rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 the feathers are blackish at the base, broadly margined and 

 tipped with rufous ; quills and tail blackish-brown, margined with 

 buff or rufous ; under surface of the secondaries showing trans- 

 verse bars as in the adult, nearly all the feathers tipped with 

 down. Total length 15'5 inches, wing 8"3, tail 5, bill from fore- 

 head 3"4, from gape l'5,from nostril 0"G, tarsus 3"5, mid-toe (s.u.) 

 1-75.* 



Habitat. — Derby (jST. W. Austr.), Port Denison, "Wide Bay 

 District, Dawson liiver, Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, 

 New South Wales, Interior, Victoria, South and West 

 Australia. 



A 1 9 '^^- sk. Richmond River, New South Wales Ccl. 



A 2 ^ ad. sk. Lachlan River, New South Wales. Pres. 



K 7) $ ad. sk. Richmond River, New South Wales. Pch. 



B 1 2 semi-ad. sk. Botany, New South Wales. Pres. 



B 2 (J semi-ad. King George's Sound, West Australia. Col. 



C 1 2 juv. sk. New Soutli Wales. Pres. 



2. Circus approximans; 



GoukVn Harrkr. 

 Circus approximans, Peale, U.S. Expl. Ex2)ed., p. 64 (1848) ; Gurncy, 



Ibis, 1876, p. 384 ; id. List Diurn. Bds. Prey, pp. 21-22 (1884) ; 



Gurney, jun., Cat. Bds. Prey, p. 19 (1894). 

 Circus gouldi, Bonap. Consp. Av. tom. i., p. 34 (1850) ; id. Rev. Zool.., 



1850, p. 491 ; Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 215 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1870, p. 536 j 



Sharpe, Cat. Bds., Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 72 (1874) ; Ramsay, Proc. 



* The nestlings in every instance described in this catalogue were taken by the late Mr. 

 K. H. Bennett, who has attached a note, giving the date and locality of each specimen,, 

 together with the colours of those parts liable to fade. 



