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HORN EXPEDITION—AVES. 
aspect of the country was entirely changed, and where, during the middle of the 
previous year, the vegetation was dry and parched, it was now green and luxuriant, 
and all the clay-pans and water-holes were Idled and alive with animal life. 
In the accompanying paper Mi'. Keartland’s notes on his observations and 
the habits of the dilierent species are placed between square brackets. Preliminary 
descriptions of the new species have already appeared in the July number of “The 
Ibis” for 1895. 
No. 1. Astur approximans. Vigors and Horsfield. Australian Goshawk. 
Astur approxi/nans, Vig. and Horsf., Trans. Linn. 8oc., Vol. XV., p. 181 
(1826); Gould, Bds. Austr., fob, Vol. I., pi. 17 (1848); Sturt, Exped. Ceiitr. 
Austr., Vol. II., App. p. 15 (1849); Sharpe, IJrit. Mus. Cat. Bds., Vol. I., 
p. 126 (1874); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., 2nd series, p. 1085 
(1886); North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 3 (1889). 
One immature female, Darwent Creek. 
[At several of the water-holes these birds were seen. Their chief food appears 
to be lizards and frogs, but they are very fond of young Ducks and othei- aciuatic 
Ijirds, which they seize with great dexterity from the surface of the water. Their 
nests, which are large in proportion to the size of the Ijirds, are composed of sticks 
placed in high trees, genei'ally near water.] 
No. 2. Accipiter cirrhocepiialus, Vieillot. Collared 8parrow-llawk. 
Sparvins cirrhocepiialus, Vieill, Nouv. Diet, d’llist. Tom. X., p. 328 (1817). 
Accipiter torqualus, Gould, Bds. Austr., fob, Vol. I., pb 19 (1848). 
Accipiter cirrhocepiialus. Gray, Gen. Bds., Vol. I., p. 29 (1849); 81iarpe, Brit. 
Mus. Cat. Bds., Vol. I., p. 141 (1874); Ramsay, Proc. Linn. 8oc. N.S.W., Vol. II., 
2nd series, p. 166 (1887); North, Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 5, pb II., lig. 6 
(1889). 
A. ? ad. sk., Deep Well. 
A single specimen, similar in plumage and size to examples from southern and 
eastern Australia. 
[Whilst camped for lunch near Deep Well our attention was attracted to a 
pair of these birds as they dashed about overhead and occasionally pounced upon 
one of the numerous small birds near the water. As they turned in the air the 
