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FALCONID-*^ 



surface ashy white, with longitudinal streaks of black down the 

 centre of the feather ; thighs and under taU-coverts pure white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, Avith narrow streaks of black down the 

 feathers ; under surface of wing ashy brown, the inner web white 

 at the base, and notched with white for the greater part of its 

 length. Total length 11-5 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 6-35, tail 5-7, 

 tarsus 1-9. {Mks. SaJvin and Godnian.) 

 Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



74. HARPA. 



Harpe, Bj}. C. R. xU. p. 052 (IS.'iS) 

 Ilieracidea, aiict. recent. 



Type. 

 IT. novae zealandiae. 



Foot of Harpa nova zealandics. 

 Range. New Zealand and the Auckland Islands. 



1. Harpa novae zealandisB. 



New-Zealand Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 57 (1781). 



Faleo novte zealandiffi, Gm. S. N. i. p. 2(58 (1788, e.v Lath.) ; Gray, 



Toy. Ereh. iif Terr. Birds, p. 1 (1844) ; Strickl. Orn. Sy?i. p. 94 



(1855) ; Schl. Mils. P.-B. Falc. p. 35 (1862) ; Potts, Tr. i\'. Z. Lmt. 



ii. p. 51 (18li9); Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 87. 

 Falco harpe. Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii. App. p. 186 (1843, e.v Forst. 



icon. i>wd.) ; Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 68 (1844). 

 Ilypotriorchis noviB zealandije, Gray, Gen. B. i. p.- 20 (1844). 

 Ilieracidea uovse zealandite, luii/p, Isis, 1847, p. 80; id. Contr. Orn. 



1850, p. 56 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. '22 (1850) ; id. Rev. et Mag. 1854, 



p. 536 ; Grail, Ibis, 1802, p. 215 : Layard, Ibis, 1863, "p. 244 ; 



Bidlei; Fssay Orn. N. Z. p. 6 (1865) ; lYnsch, J. f. O. 1867, p. 243 ; 



Gray, Hanil-l. B. i. p. 22 (1869); Gurnei/, Ibis, 1870, p. 535; 



Hiiiton, Ibis, 1871, p. 101; id. Cat. B. N. Zeal. p. 1 (1871); 



Ihdhr, Ibis, 1872, p. 332, et B. N. Zeal. p. 1, pi. 1 (1872); Hidton, 



Ibis, 1873, p. 100 ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 327. 

 Hai-pe novse zealandise, Bp. C. R. xli. p. 652 (1855). 



Adult female. Above blackish brown, the crown and nape deeper 

 and blacker ; the whole of the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 barred across with narrow lines of pale rufous, deeper and broader 

 on the upper tail-coverts, the bars on the greater wing-coverts and 

 inner secondaries rufous or ashy white : quills blackish brown, 

 interruptedly barred externally with ashy white, banded more 

 broadly on the inner webs with dull white ; tail dark brown, 



