AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD BOOK. 
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Facial disc, hind-neck, back, chest dark-gray; crown rust- 
red streaked black; shoulders, rest of under rich- 
chestnut spotted white; tail barred dark-brown, gray; 
legs long, yellow; m., smaller, duller. Lizards, mice, 
small snakes, birds. 
152*Allied Harrier (Gould), Swamp-Hawk, Kahu, C. 
gouldi, A., T., N. Cal., Norfolk Is., Lord Howe Is., 
N.Z., Fiji =vt. Eur. Marsh-Harrier. 
Stat. v.c. swampy 20 
Upper, head dark-brown; facial disc indistinct brown; 
under buffy- white streaked and tinged red-brown; 
upper base tail white; rest tail brownish-gray; f., 
larger. Reptiles, mice, birds. 
5 153 Gray Goshawk (New Holland, Gray-backed), Astur 
63 clarus (cinereus) , A. v.r. dense brushes 16.5 
Upper gray; throat, under white finely barred gray; feet 
yellow, claws black; f., larger. Reptiles, mice, birds. 
154 . White Goshawk, A. novac-hollandiae, E.A., S.A., T. 
r. tim'ber 16.5 
Pure white; m., much smaller. Food as 153. 
155* Australian Goshawk, Chicken - Hawk, A, fasciatus 
{approximans) , A., T., Norfolk Is., N. Cal. =vt. 
Eur. Goshawk. Stat. c. tim'ber, f., 20; m., 15 
Upper dark-brown; shoulder thigh rust-red; tail dark- 
brown barred black; throat buff; under buff barred 
brown; f., larger. Food as 153. 
156 Lesser Goshawk (Western, Chestnut-colored), A. 
cruentus, V. (ace), W.A., N.W.A. Stat. c. timber 17 
Back, wings, tail slaty-brown; chestnut-red, indistinct col- 
lar; under barred brown white; chin buffy-white; f., 
upper brown. Birds, mice, lizards. 
the carnivorous Opossum of America, the Goanna is not the 
equivalent of the vegetarian American Iguana; the "Wild Cat" is 
not a Cat, nor is the ''Native Bear" a Bear, nor even remotely 
related to one, nor is the Kestrel a Sparrowhawk. It is an 
American error in popular naming, which has given us the Kes- 
trel as the equivalent of the American Sparrowhawk, while the 
Sparrowhawk of the ornithologist is the equivalent of the Spar- 
rowhawk of Britain. 
In one respect, we are unfortunate in this new land. No mass 
of association and tradition has yet had time to crystallize about 
our native animals and plants. Our poets have not been able to 
sing of our birds for want of names and knowledge. Little has 
been done beyond the giving and frequent altering of scientific 
names, and the misapplication of names of animals and plants 
living in other lands to often totally different animals and plants 
here, so that confusion has reigned supreme. However, in bird 
matters, at least, we are on a better footing, for the bird-lovers 
have provided a common, and in most cases an appropriate, name 
for each bird. 
