All the upper surface grey; throat and all the under surface white, crossed with numerous irregular grey bars; cere yellowish orange; feet yellow; bill and claws black.
The irides of the young are brown.
The figures represent the two sexes of the natural size, the smaller bird being the male.
ASTUR NOVÆ-HOLLANDIÆ.
White Variety?
J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith. C. Hullmandel Imp.
ASTUR NOVÆ-HOLLANDIÆ, Vig. and Horsf., Albino
White Goshawk.
Lacteous Eagle, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 216.
Astur Novæ-Hollandiæ, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 179.—Gould in Syn. of Birds of Australia, Part III.
Astur albus, Jard. and Selb. Ill. Orn., vol. i. pl. 1.
Falco Novæ-Hollandiæ, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 16.—Gmel. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 264.—Daud., vol. ii. p. 56.