Order FALC0NIF0RME8 
No. 298. 
Family AQTJILIDM. 
uroaEtus audax. 
WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE (EAGLE-HAWK). 
(Plate 241.) 
VuLTTJR AUDAX Latham, Index Omith. SuppL, p. ii., 1801 : New South Wales. 
Bold Vulture, Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 10, 1801. 
VuUur audax Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. ii., 1801. 
Mountain Eagle of New South Wales, Collins, Ace. Eng. Col., New South Wales, pi. in 
p. 287, 1802 ; Barrington, Hist. New South Wales (1802), p. 441, 1803. 
Aquila alhirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. I., p. 229, 1816 : New South 
Wales ; Pucheran, Rev. Mag. de Zool., 1850, p. 81. 
Aquila fuscosa Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), Vol. I., Suppl., p. 90, 1817 : New 
South Wales. 
Falco fucosus Temminck and Laugier, Plan. Color. d’Ois., 6® livr., Vol. I., pi. 32, 1821 : 
New South Wales. 
Aquila fucosa Vigors, Zool. Joum., Vol. I., p. 337, 1824 ; Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 188, 1827 ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m,, 
pi. 38, 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. i., 1848 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1865, p. 83. 
Aquila audUix Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, 1843 ; id.. Genera Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 14, 1845-9 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 8, 1865 ; Gray, Handl. Gen. 
Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 11, 1869; Ramsay, Cat. Austr. Acc., p. 25, 1876; id., Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl., 
Vol. I.,p. 93, 1884 (Q.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888; North, Aust. 
Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 5, 1890 ; Ramsay, Suppl. Cat. Austr. Acc., p. 5, ^^1890 ; 
Heartland, Rep. Horn. Sci. Exped. Austr., pt. n., p. 106, 1896 (Central) ; id., Trans. 
Roy. Soc. S.A., Vol. XXIL, p. 166, 1898 (N.W.A.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., 
no. 4, p. 23, 1898. 
Uroaetus fucosa Kaup, Class. Saug. ii Vogel, p. 121, 1844. 
Uraetus audax Kaup, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., p. 260, 1845. 
Uraetus fucosa Kaup, ih. 
Aquila cuneicaudata Brehm, Isis 1845, p. 356 : New South Wales. 
Uroaetus aud^x Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 231, 1874; Gurney, List 
Dium. Birds Prey, p. 57, 1884 ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886,, 
p. 3, 1887 (Tasm.) ; id., ih., 1887, p. 84, 1888 (Tasm.) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. l,^ 
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