AUSTRALIAN GOSHAWK. 
Astur cruentus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Loud.) 1842, p. 113, 1843 : York District, W©st 
Australia; id.. Birds Austr., VoL L, pi. 18; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. L, 
p. 43, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 127, 1874 ; Ramsay, Cat. 
Austr. Accip., p. 15, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; 
id., ib., Ser. 2, Vol. II., p. 165, 1887, N.W.A. ; id., Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; 
id., Suppl. Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 4, 1890 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 15, 1898 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 4, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 8, 1901; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 207, 1905 (N.W.A.) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 40, 1908 ; Wilson, Emu, Vol. XII., 1912, p. 31 (Viet. !) ; 
Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 145, 1913 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 154, 
1915 (V/.A.). 
Accipiter approximans Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 335, 1843 ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 33, 1850 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, pt. i., p. 34, 1869. 
Falco mnus Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, 1843 ; no men nudum. 
Urospizia approximans Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 
Urospizias approximans Gurney, Ibis 1881, p. 261 ; id., Cat. Dium. Birds Prey, p, 38, 1884. 
Astur maculosus Coles, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XIV., p. 43, July 1897 : Blackburn, Victoria. 
Astur fasciatus fasciatus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 246, 1912. 
Astur fasciatus rrMchayi Mathews, ib. : Mackay, Queensland. 
Astur fasciatus cruentus Mathews, ib. 
Astur fasciatus didimus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 33, 1912 : Melville Island, 
Northern Territory. 
Urospiza fasciata fasciata Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 103, 1913. 
Urospiza fasciata cruenta Mathews, ib., p. 104. 
Urospiza fasciata didima Mathews, ib. 
Range. Australia ; Tasmania. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface earth-brown with a tinge of grey and 
an indication of a brown nuchal collar ; quills rather darker than the back with 
dark barrings on the inner webs where they are mottled with rufous ; lesser upper 
wing-coverts very slightly edged with rufous ; fore-head minutely streaked with 
brown and white : sides of face grey ; throat white with grey mottlings ; under- 
surface chestnut, barred across with white as also the axillaries and under ^ing- 
coverts ; the rufous of the under-surface encroaches towards the upper sides 
of the neck. Bill dark horn, cere greenish-yellow ; iris straw-yellow ; tarsi and 
feet yellowish. Total length 530 mm. ; culmen 27 ; wing 303 ; tail 240 ; tarsus 88. 
Figured. Collected at Wilson’s Inlet, South-west Australia, on the 7th of July, 1911. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female but smaller, with bars on the under-surface 
wider ; wing 262 mm., culmen 25, tarsus 77. Collected on the Coongan River, 
Mid-west Australia, on the 4th of July, 1908. 
Immature female. General colour above brown, with pale rufous edges to the feathers, 
those on the back of the neck broadly margined with the same colour, the feathers 
of the head, hind-neck and back having white bases ; bastard-wing and primary- 
coverts brown barred with darker brown and more or less rufous on the inner webs ; 
primary- and secondary-quills similar, the latter being somewhat paler and with 
less rufous on the innermost secondaries ; second, third, and fourth primaries 
incised on the outer webs and also on the inner webs ; lateral upper tail-coverts 
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