• Erythrotriorchis Sharpe, R.B. 1875. Contributions to a history of the Accipitres, or birds of prey. Notes on the rarer Accipitres of Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1875]: 337-339 [337].

  Type species:

   Falco radiatus Latham, 1801 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [249]; Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. [82].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Falco radiatus Latham, J. 1801. Supplementum Indicis Ornithologici, sive Systematis Ornithologiae. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby 74 pp. [xii].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown, New South Wales.

  Secondary source:

   Latham, J. 1801. Supplimentum II Indicus Ornithologici. London : G. Leigh, J. & S. Sotheby pp.376. [53].
• Haliaeetus caleyi Vigors, N.A. & Horsfield, T. 1827. A description of the Australian birds in the collection of the Linnean Society; with an attempt at arranging them according to their natural affinities. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 15: 170-331 [Date published 17 Feb 1827: publication dated 1826] [186].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1863.7.7.6 Skin, New Holland (New South Wales).

  Type locality references:

  Warren, R.L.M. 1966. Type-specimens of Birds in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1 Non-Passerines. London : British Museum ix 320 pp. [48].
• Astur testaceus Kaup, J.J. 1847. Monograph of the genera of the Falconidae. subfamily Buteoninae. Isis von Oken. Isis von Oken 40(5): 325-386 [367] (Ex Ernest Ms. Replacement name for radiatus).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Unknown (Unlocated), New South Wales.
• Urospizia tricolor Bonaparte, C.L. 1854. Tableau des oiseaux de proie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 6: 530-544 [538] (Nomen nudum).
• Haliaetus caleii Gould, J. 1865. Handbook to the Birds of Australia. London : J. Gould Vol. 1 viii 636 pp. [Date published Sep 1865] [40] [subsequent misspelling; misspelling of Haliaeetus caleyi Vigors & Horsfield].
• Erythrotriorchis rufotibia Campbell, A.J. 1911. Description of a New Goshawk. Emu 10: 249-251 [249].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV HLW.5370 Skin, Napier Broome Bay, Western Australia [14°17'S, 126°38'E].
• Haliaeetus calei Mathews, G.M. 1912. A Reference-List to the Birds of Australia. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 171-455 [Date published 31 Jan 1912] [247] [subsequent misspelling; misspelling of Haliaeetus caleyi Vigors & Horsfield, 1827].
• Erythrotriorchis radiatus katherinae Mathews, G.M. 1916. List of additions of new sub-species to, and changes in, my "List of the Birds of Australia". Austral Avian Records 3(3): 53-68 [Date published 4 Apr 1916] [57] (Originally, and misspelled as E.r. katherine).

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 534013 Skin, Katherine River, Northern Territory = Cedar Bay, Queensland [15°49'S, 145°22'E].

  Type locality references:

  Hartert, E. 1931. Types of birds in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 36: 184-190 [42]; Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [268].
• Erythrotriorchis radiatus queenslandicus Mathews, G.M. 1917. Additions and corrections to my list. Austral Avian Records 3: 127-128 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 534013 Skin, Cedar Bay, Queensland [15°48'S, 145°20'E].

  Type locality references:

  Greenway, J.C. Jnr 1973. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Part 1. Tinamidae, Spheniscidae, Gaviidae, Podicipedidae, Diomedeidae, Procellariidae, Hydrobatidae, Pelecanoididae, Phaethontidae, Pelecanidae, Sulidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Anhingidae, Fregatidae, Ardeidae, Cochleariidae, Scopidae, Ciconiidae, Threskiornithidae, Phoenicopteridae, Anatidae, Cathartidae, Accipitridae, Falconidae, Megapodiidae, Cracidae, Tetraonidae, Phasianidae, Numididae, Meleagrididae, Turnicidae, Pedionomidae, Gruidae, Rallidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(3): 207-346 [268].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Common Name References

Anonymous 1969. An Index of Australian Bird Names. Division of WIldlife Research Technical Paper. Canberra : CSIRO Vol. No. 20 pp. 93. [15] (Red Buzzard, Rufous-bellied Buzzard)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 1994. The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories. Monograph 2. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union iv 112 pp. (Red Goshawk)

Christidis, L. & Boles, W.E. 2008. Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 288 pp. [21] (Red Goshawk)

History of changes