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Stat. v.c. swampy 20

Upper, head dark-brown; facial disc indistinct brown; under buffy-white streaked and tinged red-brown; upper base tail white; rest tail brownish-gray; f., larger. Reptiles, mice, birds.

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=153 Gray Goshawk= (New Holland, Gray-backed), Astur clarus (cinereus), A.

v.r. dense brushes 16.5

Upper gray; throat, under white finely barred gray; feet yellow, claws black; f., larger. Reptiles, mice, birds.

=154 White Goshawk=, A. novae-hollandiae, E.A., S.A., T.

r. timber 16.5

Pure white; m., much smaller. Food as 153.

=155* Australian Goshawk=, Chicken-Hawk, A. fasciatus (approximans), A., T., Norfolk Is., N. Cal. =vt. Eur. Goshawk.

Stat. c. timber, f., 20; m., 15

Upper dark-brown; shoulder thigh rust-red; tail dark-brown barred black; throat buff; under buff barred brown; f., larger. Food as 153.

=156 Lesser Goshawk= (Western, Chestnut-colored), A. cruentus, V. (acc.), W.A., N.W.A.

Stat. c. timber 17

Back, wings, tail slaty-brown; chestnut-red, indistinct collar; under barred brown white; chin buffy-white; f., upper brown. Birds, mice, lizards.

=184= Blue Mountain Lorikeet =185= Musk Lorikeet =191= Gang-gang Cockatoo =193= Pink Cockatoo =194= Rose-breasted Cockatoo =196= Cockatoo-Parrot =197= Superb Parrot =198= Black-tailed Parrot =199= King Parrot

=200= Crimson Parrot =202= Rosella =203= Mallee Parrot =204= Blue Bonnet =205= Many-colored Parrot =206= Red-backed Parrot =209= Grass Parrot =213= Swift Parrot =214= Warbling Grass-Parrot

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=157* Collared Sparrow-Hawk=, Accipiter cirrhocephalus, N.G., A., T. =vt. Eur. Sparrow-Hawk. [~157 Astur cirrhocephalus.]

Stat. r. timber, f., 14; m., 12

Head, upper brownish-gray; tail barred deep-brown; obscure collar reddish-brown; throat, under, thighs rufous barred white; f., much larger. Mice, birds.

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=158* Wedge-tailed Eagle=, Eaglehawk (e), Uroaëtus audax, A., T. =vt. Eur. Golden Eagle (32in.).

Stat. c. timber, plains 38

"Noble bird;" largest eagle known; upper, under blackish-brown; feathers edged pale-brown; hind-neck golden-brown; f., larger. Rabbits, rats, carrion.

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=159 Little Eagle=, Eutolmaëtus morphnoides, N.G., A.

r. timber 22

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