Order FALC0NIF0RME8 
No. 299. 
Family AQUILIDM. 
HIERAAETUS PENNATUS. 
LITTLE EAGLE. 
(Plate 242.)* 
Falco pbnnattjs Gmelin, Syst. Nat., p. 272, 1788 : Locality unknown. 
Aquila mor'phnoides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 161, 1841 ; Upper Hunter, 
New South Wales. 
Aquila mor'ph'mides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 161, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 2, 1848 ; Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 14, 1860 ; Ramsay, 
Cat. Austr. Acc., p. 28, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; 
Bennett, Ibis 1884, p. 465 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queens!., Vol. III., p. 24, 
1887 (Q.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; North, Aust. Mus. Cat., 
no. 12, p. 6, 1890 ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 145, 1913. 
ButcBtus morphnoides Blyth, Joum. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. XIV., p. 546, 1845. 
Hieraetus cristatus (not VieiUot) Blyth, ih., Vol. XV., p. 4, 1846. 
Hieraetus morphnoides Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 11, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 578 (Q.) ; Orton and Sandland, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 76, 
1913 (W.A.) ; Barnard, ih., p. 205, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ih., Vol. XIV., p. 41, 1914 (N.T.). 
Nisaetus morphnoides Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 254, 1874 ; id., Proc. Zool. 
Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 338 (Q.) ; Gurney, Ibis 1877, p. 419 ; id., ih., 1882, p. 454 ; 
North, Aust. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 27, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 1, 1899 ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 15, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, 
Vol. II., p. 10, 1902 (Vic.) ; Le Souef, ih., p. 139, 1903 (N.T.) ; Carter, ih., Vol. III., 
p. 32, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Sassi, Joum. fur Om., 1909, p. 365 (Q.) ; Whitlock, Emu, 
Vol. veil., pp. 171, 176, 1909 (W.A.) ; MacgiUivray, ih., Vol. X., p. 18, 1910 
(N.S.W.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 211, 1911. 
Eutolmaetus morphnoides Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 40, 1908 ; Howe, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 229, 1910 (Vic.) ; Oghvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 169 (W.A.). 
Utolmaetus morphnoides Whitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 190, 1910 (W.A.). 
Aquila morphnoides morphnoides Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 248, 1912. 
Aquila morphnoides coongani Mathews, ih., Coongan River, West Australia. 
Hieraaetus morphnoides morphnoides Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 106, 1913. 
Hieraaetus morphnoides coongani Mathews, ih. 
* The Plate is lettered Eutolmaetus morphnoides. 
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