Order FALCON IF0RME8 
Family AQUILIDM 
No. 291. 
CIRCUS ASSIMILIS. 
SPOTTED HARRIEK. 
(Plate 234).* 
Circus assimilis Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Omith., Ser. 1, Vol. II., pi. 51, 1828 : near 
Sydney, New South Wales. 
Circus assimilis Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Omith., Ser. 1, Vol. II., pi. 51, 1828 ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 63, 1874 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1875, 
p. 580 (Q.) ; Gurney, Ibis 1875, p. 225 ; id.. List Diurnal Birds Prey, 1884, p. 23 ; 
Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1096, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; Legge, 
Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tasm.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, 
p. 1, 1888 ; North, Aust. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 1, 1890 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. 
(Queensland) 1888, p. 16 (Q.) ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, 
Vol. IV., p. 397, 1889 (N.S.W.) ; North, ih., p. 1023, 1890 (N.W.A.) ; id., Austr. 
Mus, Cat., no. 12, p. 1, 1890 ; id., Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 1, 1898 ; Hall, Key 
Birds Austr., 1st ed., 1899, p. 3 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 1, 1901 ; Littler, Emu, Vol. II., p. 169, 1903 (Tasm.) ; Carter, ih., Vol. III., p. 31, 
1903 (N.W.A.) ; Bemey, ih., Vol. V., p. 15, 1905 (N.Q.); Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
2nd ed., 1906, p. 3; Mathews, Handl, Birds Austral., p. 39, 1908 ; Crossmann, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 86, 1909 (W.A.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 171 (W.A.) ; Littler, 
Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 2, 1910 (Tasm.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 176, 1911; Mellor and White, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 161, 1913 (Flinders 
Island) ; Mellor, ih., p. 189 (S.A.) ; Agnew, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 94 (Q.); Barnard, ih., 
p. 206, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ih., Vol. XIV., p. 41 (N.T.) ; Cheney, ih., p. 203, 1915 (Viet.). 
Circus jardinii Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iii., pi. 48, 1838 (N.S.W.) ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1837, p. 141, 1838 (N.S.W.) ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 32, 1845 ; Gould, 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. 27, 1848 ; Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 16, 
1849 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 60, 1865 ; Higgles, Orn. Austr., pt. xii., 
pi. 12, 1867 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 37, 1869 ; A. G. Campbell, 
Emu, Vol. II., p. 10, 1902 (Viet.) ; Stone, Austral Avian Rec., Vol. I., p. 145, 1913. 
Spilocircus jardinii Kaup, Isis 1847, pp. 89-102. 
Strigiceps jardinii Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 34, 1850. 
* The Plate is lettered Circus rogersi. 
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