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t*312. leracidea berigora berigora (Vigors & Horsf.) Interior of 



Trans. Linn. Soc, xv., p. 184 (1827). [New S. Queensland 



South Wales, type in Brit. Mus.] and 



Striped Brown Hawk. N.S. Wales. 



Size moderate ; wing ^ 330, $ 355 mm. ; 

 above sandy brown, most of the feathers 

 edged with rufous ; head with blackish 

 shaft-stripes ; tail ashy brown, tipped 

 with white and barred with rufous ; below 

 creamy white with brownish shaft-streaks, 

 and a dark brown moustachial stripe ; 

 thighs, axilliaries and inner lower wing- 

 coverts chestnut. 



312a. leracidea berigora oriental-is Sharpe, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., i., p. 422 (1874). [New 

 S. Wales, ex Schl. Naum. 1855, p. 254.]i 

 Brown Hawk. 



Less rufous above, more uniform darker 

 brown, without shaft stripes ; below with- 

 out shaft-stripes, the sides blackish brown, 

 often uniform blackish brown. [Possibly 

 only dark phase of /. berigora berigora.] 



Coastal districts 

 of S. Queens- 

 land and 

 N.S. Wales; 

 whole of 

 Victoria. 



312b. leracidea berigora tasmanica Math., Bds. Tasmania. 

 Austr., v., p. 276 (1916). [Tasmania.] 

 Tasmanian Brown Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing (sex ?) 325 mm. ; above 

 brown with buffy tips ; below white, with 

 dark shaft-streaks and some brown tips. 



312c. leracidea berigora occidentalis Gould, P.Z.S. 

 1844, p. 105. [Perth.] 

 Western Brown Hawk. 



S.W. Australia. 



1 For the forms of this group, all very doubtfully distinct, see Mathews's 

 Birds of Australia. 



