Order FALC0NIF0BME8 
No. 315. 
PANDION HALLETUS. 
Family PANDIONIDJE. 
WHITE-HEADED OSPKEY (FISH-HAWK). 
(Plate 259).* 
Falco hali^tus Liime, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., p. 91, 1758 : Sweden, Europe. 
Buteo cristatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. IV., p. 481, 1816 ; “ Nouvelle- 
HoUande ”=Tasmania. 
Buteo cristatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. IV., p. 481, 1816. 
Pandion leucocephalus (not Wood) Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. ni., pi. 41, Apl. 1838 : 
Tasmania ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 138, Dec. 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 6, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 22, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 451, 1874; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, 
p. 578 (Q.) ; id.. Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 62, 1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; Masters, ib., p. 269, 1878 (N.T.) ; Gurney, Ibis 1882, p. 595 ; 
id.. List Diurn. Birds Prey, p. 113, 1884; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, 
Vol. L, p. 93, 1884 (Q.) ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 
1887 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. 
Cat., no. 12, p. 23, 1890 ; id., no. 4, p. 69, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 5, 1899 ; 
Milligan, Emu, Vol. II., p. 70, 1902 (S.-W.A.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 34, 1903 
(M.-W.A.) ; Cornwall, ib., Vol. VII., p. 172, 1908 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 43, 1908 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 64, 1908 (W.A.) ; Whitlock, ib., 
p. 179, 1909 (W.A.) ; Broadbent, ib., Vol. X., p. 233, 1910 (Q.) ; Ldttler, Hari^b. 
Birds Tasm., p. 10, 1910 (Tas.) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 167 (W.A.) ; Hill, 
Emu, Vol. X., p. 267, 1911 (N.-W.A.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XI., p. 22, 1911 (N.Q.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 291, 1912 ; Witmer Stone, 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol, I., p. 146, 1913 (Tasm.) ; Agnew, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 94, 
1913 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 152, 1914 (Q.). 
Pandion gouldii Kaup, Isis 1847, col. 270 (new name for P. leucoce'phalus Gould). 
Pandion halicetus subsp. leucocephalus Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., 
p. 40, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. IL, p. 142, 1903 (N.T.). 
Pandion haliaetus leucocephalus Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 209, 1905. 
* The Plate is lettered Pandion cristatus. 
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