LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Lepiurm Reiehenbaeh, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (? 1853). Type (by monotypy) : L. edwardaii Reiehenbaeh 
—Phaeton Upturns Daudin. 
Not Brisson, Ornith., Vol. VI., p. 479, 1760, nor Swainson 1838. 
206. LEPTOPHAETHON LEPTURUS. WHITE-TAILED TROPIC BIRD. 
[Phaeton Upturns Daudin, in Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr., Vol. XIV., p. 319 [1799 =] Oct. 1802 : lie de 
France =Mauritius . Extra-limital .] 
Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 3, pi. 232, June 23rd, 1915. 
Phaethon Upturns dcrotheae Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 7, Aug. 2nd, 1913 : Queensland. 
Distribution. Queensland, breeding on Fiji Islands (?) 
Family PELECANIDiE. 
CLXXXVXI. Genus CATOPTROPELICANUS. 
Catoptropelieanus Reiehenbaeh, Nat. Syst., Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (?1853). Type (by original designation): 
O. perspicillatus = P. conspicillatus Temminck et Laugier. 
207. CATOPTROPELICANUS CONSPICILLATUS. PELICAN. 
Gould, VII., pi. 74 (pt. xxix.), Dec. 1st, 1847. Mathews, Vol. IV., pt. 3, pi. 233, June 
23rd, 1915. 
Pelecanus conspicillatus Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois.,47e livr. (Vol. III., pi. 276), (Vol. V.,pl. 118), 
June 26th, 1824 : New South Wales. 
PeUcanus australis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XIII., pt. 1 ., p. 113, Feb. 18th, 1826: New South 
Wales. 
Catoptropelieanus perspicillatus Reiehenbaeh, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (? 1853): New South Wales. 
PeUcanus conspicillatus westralis Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 244, Jan. 31st, 1912: Perth, West 
Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
Order FALCONIFORMES. 
Family AQUILID.R. 
CLXXXVIII. Genus CIRCUS. 
Circus Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., p. 4, Dec. 1799. Species added by Daudin, in Hist. Nat. Buffon, ed. Didot, Quadr., 
Vol. XIV., p. 221 [1799 =] Oct. 1802. Type (by subsequent designation, Lesson, Man. d’Orn., Vol. 
I., p. 105, 1828) : Falco ceruginosus Linne. 
Pygargus Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., pp. xxxii., 127, July 1816. Type (by tautonymy and monotypy) : P. dispar 
Koch =FaUo pygargus Linne. , 
Strigiceps Bonaparte, Comp. Geog. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., p. 5, April 14th, 1838 (ex Giorn. Arcad. 1831, 
nom.nud.). Type (by subsequent designation Gray, List Gen. Birds, p. 5, 1840): F. pygargus Linne. 
Not Strigiceps Lesson, Revue Zool., 1840, p. 266. 
Glaucopterix Kaup, Classif. Saugeth. Vogel, p. 113, March 15th, 1844. Type (by original designation) : G. cineraceus 
= Falco pygargus Linne. 
Spizacircus Kaup, Mus. Senckenb., Vol. III., p. 258, 1845. Type (by subsequent designation, id., Isis, 1847, col. 
89) : Circus macropterus Vieillot. 
Spilocircus Kaup, Isis, 1847, heft 2, col. 89, Feb. Type (by monotypy) : S. jardinii = Circus as similis Jardine 
and Selby. 
Pterocircus Kaup, Archiv fur Nat. (Wiegm.), 1850, p. 32. New name for Glaucopterix Kaup. 
Eucircus Acloque, Faune de France, Vol. I.,p. 122, 1900. Type (by subsequent designation of Richmond (3) 
p. 589, Aug. 16th=25th, 1917) : F. ceruginosus Linne. 
208. CIRCUS ASSIMILIS. SPOTTED HARRIER. 
Gould, Vol. I., pi. 27 (pt. x.), March 1st, 1843. Mathews, Vol. V., pt. 1, pi. 234, Xov. 5th, 
1915. 
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