118 FALCONID^E. 



Leucospizia rayi, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 67 ; Gould, Handh. B. 

 Austr. i. p. 38 (I860). 



Adult male. Above brownish ash-colour, the feathers with con- 

 cealed spots of white near the base, the head clearer and more slaty 

 grey ; lores, sides of the face, and neck pale ashy, varied with whitish ; 

 under surface white, numerously but indistinctly barred with didl 

 ashy, these bars gradually decreasing in size on the beUy and dis- 

 appearing entirely on the abdomen, thighs, and under wing- and 

 tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back, the quills dark brown, 

 secondaries externally shaded with ashy grey, the innermost pale 

 brownish ash-colour, white at the base and on the inner web, which 

 is barred with brownish, the quiUs barred with dark brown, more 

 plainly underneath, where the feathers are white at the base ; tail 

 pale brown, whitish underneath, numerously but indistinctly barred 

 with darker brown ; cere yellowish orange ; bill black ; feet yellow, 

 claws black ; iris yeUow. Total length 16-5 inches, culmen 1-2, 

 wing 10-25, tail 7*8, tarsus 2-7. 



Adult female. Larger than the male. A specimen in the collec- 

 tion has the wing-coverts and tail tipped with whitish, and the bars 

 on the breast, which are a little more distinct than in the preceding 

 specimen, are mixed with brown, evidently the signs of immaturity. 

 Total length 20 inches, wing 12-25, tarsus 2-95. 



A younger bird does not exhibit the whitish margins to the wing- 

 coverts, but has the markings on the chest more elongate, these, as 

 well as the other pectoral markings, being very broad and distinct 

 and brownish in colour ; iris brown. 



Hab. New South "Wales and South Australia, extending along the 

 entire eastern side of the continent to Cape York. 



Type of 



21. Astur novse hoUandise. 



New-HoUand "White Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 40 (1781). 



Falco novie hollandiie, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 264 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Falco albus, l]lnte, Voy. N. S. W. pi. 35 (1790). 



Fan- Falcon, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 54 (1801). 



Falco clarus. Lath. Lnd. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xiii (1801). 



Sparvius niveus, Vieill. N. Diet. x. p. 338 (1817). 



Astur novas hollandise, Viff. Zool. Journ. i. p. 3-38 (1824); Gov.ld, 



Synops. B. Amt. pt. 3 (1888) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 27 (1849) ; Bp. 



Cmisp. i. p. 31 (1850) ; StrieM. Orn. Syn. p. 118 (1855) ; Schl. Mus. 



P.-B. Astures, p. 20 (1862) ; Gray, ^Hand-l. B. i. p. 29 (1869) ; 



Schl. Revue Accipif.r. p. 63 (1873). 

 Astur albus, Jard. 4' Selby, HI. Orn. i. p. 1, pi. 1 (c. 1830). 

 Dffidalion candidum, Less. Traite, p. 66, pi. 12. fig. 1 (1831). 

 Falco leucaetus, Forster, Descr. An. p. 70 (1844). 

 Leucospizia novas bollandife, Kaup, Classif. Siivy. v. Vdg. p. 119 



(1844) ; id. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 67 ; Gould, Handh. B. Avstr. i. 



p. 38 (1865). 



