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86a. Astur ran cooktowni (Math.), Nov. Zool., N. Queensland, 

 xviii., p. 245 (1912). [Cooktown, N.Q.-\ 

 Northern Grey Goshawk. 



Smaller ; wing ? 261 mm. 



86b. Astur rati robustus Zeitz. S. A. Orn., i., pt. 1, Melville I., 

 p. 13 (1914). [Melville I.] N. Territory 



Melville Island Goshawk. 



Insular race. [Not seen.] 



*87. Astur noveehoUandia novahollandice (Gmel.) Tasniania, 



S.N., i., p. 264 (1788). [ex. Forster : N.S. Wales, 



Australia ^Tasmania, apud Math.] S. Australia 

 Wliite Goshawk. 



Wing c? 260, 2 310 mm. ; above and below 

 pure white. 



87a. Astur noveshollandice leucosomus Sharpe, New Guinea 



Cat. Bds. B.M., i., p. 119 (1874). [New Waigiou, 



Guinea.'] N. Queensland? 

 Lesser White Goshawk. 



Smaller ; wing cj 198 mm 



88. Astm buergersi Reich., Orn. M.B., xxii.. Mountains of 

 p. 29 (1914)1 [Mdomoboberg']. New Guinea. 



B]ack-and-\\'hite Goshawk. 



-I Mr. O. Neumann informed me recently that A . buergersi was in his opinion the 

 same as A. eudiabolus Rothsch. & Hart., and that a second specimen oiA. buergersi 

 received was in his ppinion adult (although the first was not) and was " nearly black 

 all over, with a few white marks on wing and tail." Dr. Hartert has since written 

 me that bilrgersi was the juvenile and eudiabolus the adult, but he concurs in the 

 identity of the two birds, so eudiabolus becomes a synonym. Astur planes of 

 Reichenow (J.f.O. 1910, p. 412, Neu Pommern) I have still been unable to place or 

 identify, nor is Mr. Neumann certain of it. 



