Order FALC0N1F0RME8 
No. 293. 
Family AQUILIDJS. 
LEUCOSPIZA CINEREA. 
GEEY GOSHAWK. 
(Plate 236.)* 
Sparvius cinereus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat.,Vol. X., p. 338, 1817 : New South 
Wales. 
Sparvius cinereus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. X., p. 338, 1817. 
Astur raii Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 180, 1827 : New 
South Wales. 
Falco raii Lesson, Traite d’Om., p. 67, 1830. 
Astur rayi Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 31, 1850 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, 
pt. I., p. 30, 1869. 
Leucospiza raii Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 37, 1865. 
Astur cinereus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 117, 1874 ; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. 
Aee., p. 9, 1876 ; id., Proe. Linn. Soe., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; id., Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 2, 1890 ; id., ib., 
no. 4, p. 6, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 4, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs 
Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 4, 1901 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., 2nd ed., p. 4, 1906 ; 
Le Souef, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 187, 1908 (Viet.) ; Howe and Tregellas, ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 81, 1914 (Viet.). 
Leucospiza novcehollandim Ramsay, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1875, p. 579 (Queensland). 
Astur clarus (not Latham) Sharpe, Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. B. M., Vol. II., p. 112, 1906; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 39, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 229, 1910 
(Viet.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spee. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 184, 1911. 
Astur clarus clarus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 245, 1912. 
Astur clarus cooktowni Mathews, ib. : Cooktown, North Queensland ; id.. South Austr. 
Ornith., Vol. II., p. 19, 1915. 
Leucospiza clara clara Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 102, 1913. 
Leucospiza clara cooktowni Mathews, ib., p. 103, 1913. 
Astur clarus robustus Zietz, South Austr. Ornithologist, Vol. I., p. 13, 1914; Melville 
Island (N.T.). 
Leucospiza clara robusta Mathews, Austral Av. Ree., Vol. II., p. 90, 1914. 
Distribution, Vietoria ; New South Wales ; Queensland. Melville Island, Northern 
Territory, 
* The Plate is lettered Astur clarus. 
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