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PELECANIDiE.—AQUILIDiE. 
Pelecanus australis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool. vol. xiii. pt. i. p. 113 
Feb. 18th, 1826: New South Wales. 
Catoptropelicanus perspicillatus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vii, 1852 
(1853): New South WaleB. 
Distr .—East Australia, New Zealand. 
Catoptropelicanus conspicillatus westralis (Mathews). 
Pelecanus conspicillatus westralis Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. 
p. 244, Jan. 31st, 1912: Perth, West Australia. 
Distr .—Western and Northern Australia, New Guinea, and 
Tenimber Islands. 
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Order FALCONIFORMES. 
Family AQUILIDzE*. 
Genus CIRCUS Lacep&de. 
Circus Lacepede, Tabl. Ois. p. 4, 1799. Species added by Daudin, in 
Hist. Nat. Button, ed. Didot, Quadr. vol. xiv. p. 221, (1799=) 
Oct. 1802. Type (by tautonymy and subsequent designation, 
Lesson, Man. d’Orn. vol. i. p. 106, 1828): Falco (ermjinosus 
LinnA 
Pygargus Koch, Syat. baier. Zool. pp. xxxii, 127, July 1816. Typo (by tauto- 
nymy and monotypy): P. dispar Koch = Falco pygargus Linin'*. 
Strigiceps Bonaparte, Geog. Comp. List Birds Europe & 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 Linn<$. Not 
Strigiceps Lesson, Revue Zool. 1840, p. 266. 
Gflaucopteriu Kaup, Classif. Siingeth. Vogel, p. 113, March 15th, 1844 Type 
(by original designation): G. cineraceus—Falco pygargus Linnd. 
Spizacircus Kaup, Hub. Senekenb. vol. iii. p. 258, 1845. Type (by subsequent 
designation, id., lain, 1847, col. 80): Circus macropterus Vieillot. 
Spilociirus Kaup. Isis, 1847, heft 2, col. 89, Feb. Type (by monotypy): 
S. jardinii = Circus assimilis Jar dine & Selby. 
Pterocircus Kaup, Archiv fur Nat. (Weigm.), 1850, p. 32: new name for 
Glaucopteryx Kaup. 
Eucircus Aeloque, Faunc de France, vol. i. p. 122, 1900. Type (by subsequent 
designation of Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. liii. p. 589, Aug. 16th = 
25th, 1917): F. /eruginosus Linne. 
Circus assimilis Jardine & Selby. 
Distr .—Australia generally, Tasmania, and Celebes. 
Cf. Swann, Monogr. Birds of Prey, 1924, etc. 
