Order FALCONIFORMES 
No. 302. 
Family AQTJILIDM. 
HALIASTUR SPHENTJRUS. 
WHISTLING EAGLE. 
(Plate 245.) 
MiLVUS sPHENimus Vieillot, Nouv. Piet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XX., p. 564, 1818 : New South 
Wales. 
Milvus sphenurus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XX., p. 564, 1818 ; id., Gal. 
des Ois., Vol. I., pt. 2, pi. 15, 1822. 
Haliceetus canorus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soe. (Lend.), Vol. XV., p. 187, 1827 : 
New South Wales ; Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. m., pi. 40, 1838. 
HaUastur sphenurus Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. 5, 1848; id., Handb. Birds Austr,, 
Vol. I., p, 20, 1865 ; B-amsay, Proe. Zool. Soe. (Lond.) 1867, p. 393 (Q.) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol, I., p. 316, 1874 ; Ramsay, Cat, Austr, Aee,, p. 35, 1876 ; 
id., Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Gurney, Ibis 1878, pp. 460, 466 ; 
Ramsay, Proe. Linn. Soe. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p, 1096, 1888 (N.W.A.) ; id., ib., 
p. 1141 (eggs) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; Broadbent, Proe. Roy. Soe. 
Queensl., Vol. V., p. 14, 1888 (Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 9, 1890 ; 
Keartland, Rep. Horn. Sei. Exped. Zool,, Vol. II., p. 106, 1896 (Central) ; North, 
Austr. Mus, Cat., no. 4, p. 36, 1898 ; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 2, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 20, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 10, 1902 (Viet.) ; Le Souef, ib., p. 140, 1903 (N.T.) ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., 
p. 33, 1903 (M.-W.A.); Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XIL, p. 208, 1905 (N.T.) ; 
P’Ombrain, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 125, 1905 (Viet.) ; Bemey, ib., Vol. V., p. 17, 1905 
(Q.) ; Mulder, ib., p. 42, 1905 (Viet.) ; Hill, ib., Vol, VI., p. 177, 1907 (Viet.) ; 
Batey, ib., Vol. VII,, p. 2, 1907 (Viet.) ; Austin, ib., p. 28, 1907 (N.S.W.) ; 
Cornwall, ib., p. 171, 1908 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral,, p. 41, 1908 ; 
S. A. White, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 97, 1908 (S.A.) ; Whitloek, ib., Vol. IX., p. 191, 
1910 (W.A.) ; Mathews, ib., Vol. X,, p. 108, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Ingle, ib., p. 121, 
1910 (Viet.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 169 (W.A.) ; Hill, Emu, Vol. X., p. 266, 
1911 (N.W.A.); Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 22, 1911 (Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spee. 
Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 227, 1911 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 249, 
1912 ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 108, 1913 ; MaegiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 151, 1914 (Q.) ; Barnard, ib., p. 205, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., p. 41, 
1914 (N.T.); S. A. White, Trans. Roy. Soe. S.A., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 425, 
1914 (Central) ; id.. Emu, Vol. XIV., p. 186, 1915 (Central). 
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