Order FALC0NIF0RME8 
Family AQUILIDM. 
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No. 305. 
GYPOICTINIA MELANOSTKRNA. 
BLACK-BREASTED BUZZARD. 
(Plate 248.)* 
Buteo melanosternon Gk)uld, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 162, 1841 : Interior 
New South Wales. 
Buteo melanosternon Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1840, p. 162, 1841 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 20, 1848 ; Biggies, Om. Austr., pt. xxi., 1870 (Q.) ; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Bee., Vol. I., p. 146, 1913. 
Milvus melanosternon Kaup, Isis 1847, p. 114. 
Milvus leucosternon Kaup, Archiv. f. Naturg. 1850, p. 33 (error pro. melanosternon). 
Gypoictinia melanosterna^ Bonaparte, Bev. Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 534; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 47, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 335, 
1874 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 339 (Q.) ; Bamsay, Cat. Austr. Accip., 
p. 40, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. IL, p. 177, 1878 ; Gurney, Ibis 1878, 
p. 459 ; Bennett, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. VE., p. 146, 1882 (N.S.W.) ; Gurney, 
List Dium. Birds of Prey, p. 82, 1884 ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 2nd Ser., 
Vol. IL, p. 165, 1887 (N.W.A.) ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; id., Suppl., 
Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 8, 1890 ; North, Aust. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 11, 1890 ; 
id., ib., no. 4, p. 43, 1898; HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 2, 1899; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 25, 1901 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 33, 1903 
(M.-W.A.) ; Bemey, ib., Vol. V., p. 17, 1905 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 41, 1908; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. X., p. 19, 1910 (N.S.W.) ; Mathews, 
ib., p. 108, 1910 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 22, 1911 (N.Q.) ; North, 
Austr, Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 243, 1911 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. XII., p. 255, 
1913 (N.T.) ; Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 109, 1913 ; MacgiUivray, Emu, 
Vol. XIII., p. 151, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ib., p. 205, 1914 (N.T.) ; id., ib., Vol. XIV., 
p. 42, 1914 (N.T.) ; S. A. White, Trans. Boy. Soc. S.A., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 425, 1914 
(Ontral), 
Qypoictinia melanosterna melanosterna Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 250, 1912. 
* The Plate is lettered Gypoictinia decepta. 
t The specific name has been variously spelt melanosterna, melanosternum, and melanosternon : these 
spellings have not been discriminated. 
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