148 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
the roadside, and all of us who love the bush and its 
wild life are the poorer for the senseless slaughter of 
one of the most beautiful of God's creatures. 
I have not seen a White Hawk about Geelong for 
years, though they do sometimes stray or get blown 
by tempests hither from their home in the Otway. 
No doubt a pair or two still nest in the more secluded 
parts of the scrub, but the settler's axe and fire-stick 
are baring the land of timber, and the total extinction 
of this species can only be a matter of a few years. 
GOSHAWK 
Urospiza faseiata fasciata 
There are great differences in plumage between the 
young and adult of this species, and further the female 
is considerably larger than the male ; so that it is one 
of the kinds of Hawks which have given most trouble 
to determine. But it is one of the only two of our 
Hawks which has the breast regularly barred with 
transverse horizontal bars ; these, though finer in 
the adult and broader and blotchy in the young, 
are always present. The only bird with which it 
might be confused is the Collared Sparrow-hawk, 
which is of generally similar plumage. The chief 
differences are these : — the males measure respec- 
tively — Goshawk, 15 inches; Sparrow-hawk, 12 
inches : females — Goshaw^k, 20 inches ; Sparrow- 
hawk, 14 inches. It will be seen that the female 
of the Sparrow-hawk might be mistaken for the 
