AUSTRALIAN GOSHAWK. 
handled Gould’s type skin in the Philadelphia Museum. He now writes 
from England to the effect that he has examined the type skin, and finds 
it to be the common bird of Western Australia, and not the rare bird 
mentioned by Mr. North, as referred to above. Skins forwarded to me 
by Mr. H. G. Barnard from the Macarthur River, Northern Territory, were 
identified by Mr. Mathews as Urospim fasciata didima (Mathews). These 
same skins, upon comparison with those mentioned by Mr. North and in 
the Australian Museum, are found to be slightly different ; it is evident, 
therefore;, that if Mr. North’s bird is neither U. /. didima nor U. /. cruenta 
it must be either a freak or a new subspecies. 
“ I am unable to say whether Urospiza fasciata didima is uncommon 
throughout the whole of North Australia, but the birds are fairly plentiful 
on the Macarthur River, where Mr. H. G. Barnard secured several skins 
and clutches of eggs; one of the latter I claim to be the type, and describe 
it elsewhere in the present issue of The Emu. It is now evident that 
Mr. Mathews in his latest list (1913) has placed the distribution of the 
species correctly as follows : 
Urospiza fasciata fasciata. Eastern Australia. 
Urospiza fasciata cruenta. Western Australia. 
Urospiza fasciata didima. Northern Territory and North-west Australia. 
“Unfortunately I have not the measurements of a female specimen of 
Mr. North’s rare bird, but the undermentioned measurements of male skins 
of the species may be of interest : 
Urospiza fasciata didima, collected by 
H. G. Barnard at Macarthur River, 
Northern Territory 
Australian Museum specimen, labelled 
Astur cruentus, recorded as from 
Derby, Western Australia (north- 
west), about 17° S. 
Australian Museum specimen, labelled 
Astur approximans, recorded as 
from Yane Creek, 100 miles from 
Port Darwin 
A typical skin of Astur approximans, 
according to A. J. North, Vol. III., 
p. 190, ‘ Nests and Eggs ’ 
' Total 
Length. Wing. 
381 248 
393 267 
388 248 
419 268 
Tail. Tarsus. Culmen. 
191 70 19 
216 74 23 
191 67 23 
212 
80 
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