GEEY GOSHAWK. 
darker colour on the crown of head ; the throat is mottled and the breast 
has longitudinal dark streaks, and obscure cross-bars are seen on rest of 
under-surface ; the primaries and tail are uniformly glossy brown with white 
spots at tip of tail. 
Fig. 15 has provided the second description. Again the figure is marked 
“ Half the natural size,” but the drawing measures only 106 mm. 
The two drawings were certainly made by different artists, and I conclude 
from different birds : they do not appear conspecific to me. 
However, the first is the one upon which the name Falco clams depends, 
and the size, if correctly stated, negatives its association with the present 
species. This conclusion is confirmed by the blue colouring of the head and 
bend of the wing and the uniform tail, as well as the colouring of the wings 
and tail. 
It may have been drawn from an immature specimen of this bird, but if 
so the coloration and size are both wrong. Consequently it is inadmissible. 
As a matter of fact it might just as well have been drawn from an immature 
of Accipiter cinTiocephalus, when the size would be correct, but not the 
colouring. I therefore have no hesitation in counselling the rejection of 
the name and the acceptance of VieiUot’s name of cinereus. 
When Sharpe worked through the Watling Drawings he was prejudiced 
by the idea that they must represent living Australian birds, and until quite 
recently I was under the same impression. The discovery of the painting 
of the extinct Lord Howe Island Pigeon, as detailed in the Austral Avian 
Becordf Vol. III., pp. 21-24, 1915, has caused me to seriously reconsider these 
drawings, and it is certainly possible that some of the ones yet unrecognised 
may represent extinct forms. Under these new circumstances the rejection 
of drawings not accurately figuring a known form is demanded, and I will 
work to these new conditions for the future. 
I have received no notes concerning this bird’s economy, so reproduce 
what has been published by others. Thus Gould wrote: “The only, part 
of Australia in which I met with this species was New South Wales, Where 
it would appear to evince a preference for the dense and luxuriant brushes 
near the coast : but so little has at present been ascertained respecting 
its economy, range and habits, that its history is nearly a blank ; even 
whether it is migratory or not is unknown. That it breeds in the brushes 
of the district above mentioned is certain, for I recollect seeing a brood of 
young ones in the possession of Alexander Walker Scott, Esq., of New- 
castle, on the Hunter, a gentleman much attached to the study of the 
natural productions of Australia. These young birds differed but little 
in colour from the fully adult specimens in my collection, except that the 
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