Order FALC0NIF0RME8 
No. 294. 
Family AQUILIDM.. 
LEUCOSPIZA NOV^HOLLANDI^. 
WHITE GOSHAWK. 
(Plate 237.)* 
Falco NOViEHOLLANDi^ Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 264, 1788 : Tasmania. 
New Holland White E(agle) Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Vol. I., p. 40, 1781. 
Falco novcehollandice Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p, 264, 1788 (Tasmania) ; Latham, Index Orn., 
Vol. L, p. 16, 1790. 
Falco alhus (not Gmelin) White, Joum. Voy. N.S.W., p. 250, pi. 35, 1790 (N.S.W.). 
Sparvius niveus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. X., p. 338, 1817 : Tasmania. 
Lacteous Eagle Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. I., p. 216, 1821. 
Astur novcehollandice Vigors, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., p. 338, 1824 ; Gould, Synops. Birds 
Austr., pt. m., pi. 44, 1838 ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 27, 1845 ; Gould, Birds 
Austr., Vol. I., pi. 15, 1848; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. L, p. 31, 1850; 
Higgles, Orn. Austr., pt. xv., pi. ix., 1867 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. i., p. 29, 
1869; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 118, 1874; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. 
Ace., p. 11, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Legge, 
Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tasm.) ; Ramsay, Tab. 
List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 (Q.) ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. (Queens.), Vol. V.i, 
p. 15, 1889 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd Ser., Vol. IV., p. 397, 
1890 (N.S.W.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 9, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 4, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 4, 1901 ; Hill, Emu, 
Vol. II., p, 161, 1903 (Viet.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 207, 1905 (N.T.) ; 
Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 3, 1907 (Viet.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 40, 
1908 ; id., Emu, Vol. IX., p. 5, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Ingle, ib., Vol. X., p. 121, 1910 
(Viet.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 2, 1910 (Tasm.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec, 
Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 187., 1911 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 20, 1911 (N.Q.)^ 
Astur albus Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Orn., Ser. 1, pi. 1, p. 1, 1826. 
Dcedalion candidum Lesson, Traite d’Om., p. 66, 1830 (N.S.W.) 
Falco leucaetos Forster, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht., p. 70, 1844 (Tasm.). 
Leucospizia novcehollandice Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1854, p. 537 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 38, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 45, 
1876 (N.Q.). 
* The Plate is lettered Astur novcehollandice. 
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