BANDED 
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DescRIPTION. 
PLace. 
4. 
STRIGOID 
G. 
DuscripTion. 
GOATS UC KER: 
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HE fize of this bird is not certain, but fuppofed to be ten or 
eleven inches long: the billis black, not very lange, and bent ; 
and the gape exceedingly wide, as ufual in the genus: the irides 
orange or yellowifh: the head is full of feathers, and of a dirty flefh 
colour; the reft of the neck and under parts of the body not much 
different, with a ferruginous tinge: under the eye, on the fides of the 
neck, and beneath. the wings, crofled every where with broken dufky 
lines and other markings :, the crown and back part of the neck are 
black, coming forwards on each fide in a curved point over the eye: 
acrofs the nape is a band of black, ending on each fide about the ~ 
middle of the neck, where it divides into two parts: the back and 
wings are dufky blue, powdered with black: quills dufky, edged 
and fpotted with dufky ruft colour: tail dufky, with dull pale ferru- 
ginous fpots on each fide of the webs of the feathers ; in fhape 
fomewhat forked: legs reddifh flefh colour. 
Inhabits New South Wales, where it is called by the Engli » Mu- 
quite Hawk, a name, it muft be remarked, the Goatfucker of North 
America 1s known by : snot frequent i in July. 
HIS is twice the: fize of the European fpecies; and at a diftance 
- having the appearance of the Short-eared Owl: the general colour 
of Me siniranee is rufty brown above; marked on- the head with 
rufty brown’ ftreaks, and the back mottled and ftreaked. with the 
fame: on the wing coverts are three oblique palifh mottled bars: 
quills brown, with pale fpots on the outer margins: the~ under parts 
_ of the body not unlike the upper, marked with narrow fagittal ftreaks 
of brown: tail fomewhat forked: the fides of the head, through the 
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