Birds of Celebes: Palconidae. 
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a. Macassar 
Q juv. 
March 
(2) 
b. Tjamba 
nearly ad. 
April 16*'' 
(7, C 10709) 
c. Tjamba 
nearly ad. May 
(Nr. 6735) 
d. Tjamba 
5 nearly ad. May 25*^ 
(7, C 10710) 
e. Gorontalo 
ad. 
June 8"' 
(a 4) 
f. Gorontalo 
(f ad. 
July 1 6"' 
(a 4) 
g. Ayer-Pannas 
$ 
August 18"' 
(a 4) 
h. Bone 
G ad. 
Nov. 23’-^ 
(a 4) 
Bone 
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Nov. 23'''' 
(a 4) 
g. Lake Posso 
ad. 
Febr. 14"' 
(W 
Mr. Everett ( 12 ) obtained six specimens between Sept. 16 and November. 
If stationary, differences might be expected to have arisen between Celebesian 
and Australian birds; nevertheless the numerous specimens in the British and 
Leyden Museums appear to be quite similar. 
When at Macassar, Salomon Muller observed that this Harrier ‘’flies like 
the Harriers of the northern quarters of the globe, haunts open fields and mea- 
dows and settles in the same manner by preference silently and unnoticed upon 
the ground, or on a stone, or a low pole, or the like, where, for its own secu- 
rity and for watching for its prey, it gets a wide view” (a 2). 
GENUS ASTUR Lac. 
The Goshawks range in size from medium to small (Kestrel-size); stout, 
compact birds; wings rather short, reaching to about the middle of the tail; 
tomia with a blunt festoon; tarsi stout, feathered on their upper half (except 
posteriorly), the lower half clad with transverse shields anteriorly, elsewhere 
irregularly scaled; toes stout, the middle one not exceptionally prolonged. Food: 
any land-vertebrates weaker than the bird itself. Eggs 2 — 4. The genus is 
found in most parts of the five continents and Australia, but authors are not 
agreed as to its systematic limits. There are migratory and stationary forms. 
-L* 3. ASTUR GRISEICEPS Schl. 
Grey-headed Goshawk. 
a. Falco griseiceps [Temm. in Mus. Leyden]. 
Astur griseiceps (1) Schl., Mus. P.-B. Astures, 1862, 23; (II) Wall., Ibis, 1864, 184, pi. V; 
< f5jPinsch, Neu-Guinea 1865, 155; (IV) Schl., Valkv. 1866, 19, 58, pi. 11, f. 1, 2; 
(5) Wall., Ibis, 1868, 6, 20; Gray, HL. 1869, I, 30; (6) Schl., Kev. Acc. 1873, 66; 
(7) Sharpe, Oat. B. 1874, I, 106; (8) Briiggem., Abh. Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 43; 
(9) M. & Wg., Abb. Mus. Dresden 1895 Nr. 8, p. 3; (10) iid., ib. 1896, Nr. 1, pp. 4, 7; 
(11) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1897, 165. 
h. Lophospiza griseiceps (1) Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, 178; (2) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, YIH, 
33; (3) Lenz, J. f. 0. 1877, 365; (4) Meyer, Ibis 1879, 55; (5) W. Bias., J. f. 0. 
1883, 134; (6) id., Ztscbr. ges. Orn. 1885, 221. 
c. Lophospizias griseiceps (1) Gurney, Ibis 1875, 355; (2) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1880, I, 67; 
Gurney, Diurn. B. of Prey 1884, 29. 
Meyer & Wi gl esw o r tli, Birds of Celebes (Oct. 4tii, 1897). 
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