ASTUR. 
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Tasmanian Goshawk, and the continental form the New Holland 
Goshawk, (the name of the Australian Goshawk being retained for 
Astur approximans) which is distributed over the whole continent. 
A smaller variety of White Goshawk, the female of which has a 
ashy-grey back and a few bars of the same colour on the under 
surface of the body has been separated by Mr. R. B. Sharpe 
under the name of Asfoir leucosomus. It appears to be confined to 
Cape York and the southern portions of New Guinea, the adult 
male in this case is also purely white. 
The nest of Astur cinereus (the large continental form) is an 
open structure composed of thin sticks, and lined with twigs and 
leaves. One found near the Cape Otway Forest, Victoria, in 
October, 1865, was placed in the topmost boughs of a lofty 
Eucalyptus, and contained two eggs in form nearly oval, slightly 
swollen at one end, of a dull bluish-white, smeared and blotched 
with faded markings of yellowish and reddish-brown, particularly 
towards the larger end, and which, were it not for their size 
might be easily mistaken for those of Astur approximans which they 
closely resemble. Length (A) 1 -97 x 1-48 inches; (B) 2-05 x 
1*51 inches. 
Hah. Derby, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay 
District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence River District, 
New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. (Ramsay.) 
ASTUR APPROXIMANS, Vigors and Hgrsfield. 
Australian Goshawk. 
Gould , Handbk. Bds. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 17, p. 41. 
The nest of the Australian Goshawk is comparatively a large 
structure, composed of sticks and lined with Eucalyptus leaves 
and placed in a lofty tree, usually a Eucalyptus or Casuarina, The 
