LIST OF BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
Lepturus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst. Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (? 1853). Type (by monotypy): L. edwardsii Reichenbach 
= 2 Phaeton Upturn# Daudin. 
Not Brisson, Omith., 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 • He de 
France=Mauritius. Extra-limital] 
Mathews, Vol. IV.. pt. 3, pi. 232, Juno 23rd, 1915. 
Pha'ethon lepturus dcrothes Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 1, p. 7, Aug. 2nd, 1913 : Queensland. 
Distribution. Queensland, breeding on Fiji Islands (?) 
Family PELECANID/E. 
CLXXXV1I. Genus CA T OPT ROPE LICA N US. 
Catoptropelicanus Reichenbach, Nat. Syst., Vogel, p. vii., 1852 (?1853). Type (by original designation): 
G. perspicillatus = P. conspieillatus 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 conspieillatus Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d'Ois., 47e livr. (Vol. III., pi. 276), (Vol. V.,pl. 118), 
June 26th, 1824 : New South Wales. 
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 Wales. 
Pelecanus conspieillatus westraU# Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 244, Jan. 31st, 1912: Perth, West 
Australia. 
Distribution. Australia generally. Not Tasmania. 
Order FALCONIFORMES. 
Family AQUILHLE. 
CLXXXVIIL 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 ccruginosus Linne. 
Pygargus Koch, Syst. baier. Zool., pp. xxxii., 127, July 1816. Type (by tautonymy and monotypy): P. dispar 
Koch = FaIco pygargus Linnth 
Strigiceps Bonaparte, Comp. Geog. List Birds Europe and N. Amer., p. 5, April 14th, 1838 (ex Giorn. Arcad. 1831, 
now. nud.). Type (by subsequent designation Gray, List Gen. Birds, p. 5, 1840): F. pygargus Linne. 
Not. Strigiceps Lesson, Rovue 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, Mns. Senckonb., Vol. III., p. 258,1845. Tj 7 pe (by subsequent designation, id., Isis, 1847, col. 
89): Circus macropterus Vieillot. 
Spilocircus Kaup, Isis, 1847, heft 2, col. 89, Fob. Type (by monotypy): S. jardinii = Circus assimilis 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, Nov. oth, 
1915. 
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