EED GOSHAWK. 
was brown, and remarked that he never saw any bird fly with such 
swiftness. Its claws, which were long, small, and sharp when he took it 
up, it drove quite through the ends of his fingers. A new Falcon. This 
bird measures from the bill to the extremity of the tail 24 inches.” 
When Vigors and Horsfield made their historic study of the Australian 
birds in the collection of the Linnean Society, they recognised Falco 
radiatus Latham as applicable to the young of the bird now known as Urospiza 
fasciata, and as a bird of the present species was preserved in that collection 
it was re-named by these authors Haliceetus calei. When the Lambert 
Drawings were examined by Strickland, Gray and Gould, the error was 
discovered and rectified. Gould afterwards wrote ; “ This bird, which at 
the period of my visit to Australia was only contained in the Linnean 
Society’s collection, is still very rare in the museums of Europe. It inhabits 
the dense brushes bordering the rivers Manning and Clarence on the eastern 
coast of New South Wales, and that it enjoys a much greater range is 
more than probable. It is the largest of the Goshawks inhabiting Australia, 
the female nearly equalling in size that of the Astur palumbarius of 
Europe. In some parts of its structure the Eadiated Goshawk differs 
considerably from the typical Asturs, particularly in the lengthened form 
of the middle toe, in which respect it resembles the true Accipiters ; in 
its plumage it differs somewhat from both those forms, the markings of 
the feathers taking a longitudinal instead of a transverse direction. These 
and other slight differences may hereafter be considered of sufficient import- 
ance to warrant its separation into a distinct genus, but for the present 
I have retained it in that of Astuv, Of its habits and economy nothing 
whatever is known.” 
The last sentence can practically be endorsed, as it is a rare bird, and 
though its eggs are known, little else has been added. 
I have received no notes about this, and Campbell quotes Barnard’s 
discovery of the eggs, while North in the Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 198-200, 1911, has only more notes by Barnard. The following 
notes are taken from North, who called it the Eufous-bellied Buzzard, and 
wrote : “ With the exception of Astur cruentus (this was a myth) the present 
species is the rarest of all our Australian Accipitres. In the Catalogue 
of the Birds in the British Museum Dr. Sharpe enumerates specimens from 
Port Essington, in the Northern Territory of South Australia, presented by 
Captain Chambers, E.N. j another received from Gould, which was procured 
at Bourke, Darling Eiver, New South Wales, and the type of Halicetus 
caleyi, described by Vigors and Horsfield in the Transactions of the 
Lnnnean Society of London, and who quoted the following note of 
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