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Collection of Birds from Western Australia. 
Total length, measured in the flesh:—male 17 inches, 
female 20 inches. 
The Australian Goshawk was very plentiful in the south¬ 
west. It is known as the “ Chicken-Hawk 33 among the 
colonists. 
Dr. Hartert says that the adult male of this species is 
strangely rare in collections. Of the three males registered 
above one is adult and two are immature. 
Circus gouldi (Bonap.). 
Circus gouldi Math. p. 39. 
a, b. $ . Beechland, 24th-26th Jan. 
Iris dark brown, cere yellowdsh-buff; bill slate-black, pale 
bluish at the base ; legs pale yellow, claws black. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, 24-25 inches. 
[Gould’s Harrier was plentiful in the coastal swamps and 
marshy localities of the south-western division.— G. C. £.] 
Circus assimilis Jard. & Selb. 
Circus assimilis Math. p. 39. 
a. $ . Laverton, 22nd Oct. 
Iris umber-yellow, cere yellow, naked skin at the base of 
the mandible of a light bluish-lead-colour; bill bluish-grey, 
shading into slaty-black at the tip ; legs pale yellow, claws 
slaty-black. 
Total length, measured in the flesh, 23*5 inches; expanse 
of wings 54 inches. 
[The Allied Harrier does not appear to be confined to 
swampy situations, as it was observed in the central and 
western divisions as well as on Bernier Island. It is 
probably less numerous than Circus gouldi in the south¬ 
western division.— G. C. S.~\ 
Pelecanus conspicillatus Temm. 
Pelecanus conspicillatus Math. p. 39. 
a. Ad. Woyaline, 11th April. 
b. $ . Pelican Point, 29th March. 
Iris dark brown; naked skin round the eye dull yellow < 
a spot of dull blue on the lower eyelid; inner and outer 
