386 FALCONID^. 



subterminal spot. Total length 16*5 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 13-3, 

 tail 6-6, tarsus 2. 



Young male. Above brownish, the feathers edged with fulvous, 

 especially distinct on the wing-coverts and secondaries ; hinder neck 

 marked with pale tawny ; lower back and rump alternately barred 

 with ashy and dark brown, the subterminal bar being somewhat 

 triangular in shape ; tail brown, similarly barred with ashy and 

 tipped with fulvous ; quills dark brown, ■with paler edgings ; under 

 surface huffy white, inclining to deep fawn on the breast and abdo- 

 men, which are longitudinally streaked with blackish brown, the 

 flanks, under wing-coverts, and axillaries barred with the same 

 colour ; cere, bill, and feet paler than in the adults. 



Young fenuile. Brown, head and cheeks blackish ; feathers of 

 upper surface spotted and tipped with rufous fawn ; imderneath 

 deep buff, inclining to rufous on the abdomen, the streaks on the 

 chest dart-shaped, on the abdomen oval, all very broad and distinct. 



ITab. Australia, extending northwards through the Moluccas as 

 far as Java. 



a. $ ad. St. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. $ juv. sk. New South Wales. J. Gould, Esq. 

 c,d. S ? ad. sk. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. 



e. ? juv. sk. Australia. Linnean Society. 



/. (? ad. sk. Australia. Sir D. Cooper [P.J. 



ff. S juv. sk. Queensland. Purchased. 



6. Falco barbarus. 



The Barbeny Falcon, Albin, N. II. Birds, Suppl. iii. p. 2, pi. 2 (1740). 



Le Faucon de Barbaric, Briss. Orn. i. p. 34.3 (1760). 



Falco barbarus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 125 (1766); Bp. Consp. p. 24 (1850) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 184. pi. 6 ; Tristr. t. c. p. 289 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. 



Falc. p. 5 (1862); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 20 (1869) ; Heugl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 21 (1869) ; Sdcad. Fami. ltd. Ucc. p. 18 (1871) ; 



Shelley, B. of Egijpt, p. 187 (1872) ; Hume, Stray Feathers, i. p. 19 



(1872) ; Saunders, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 356. 

 Falco pelegrinoides, Temm. PI. Col. 479 (1824). 

 Falco lanarius alphanet, Schl. Ahhandl. Geh. Zool. p. 16 (1841). 

 Falco peregrinoides, Schl. ^- Susem. Vog. Fur. Taf. 9. fig. 1 (1839) ; 



Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 19 (1844); Licht. Nomencl. p. 5 (1854); 



Fritsch, Vog. Fur. tab. 2. fig. 3 (1858). 

 Falco punicus, Levaill. jtin. Expl. Alger., Ois. pi. 1 (1850). 

 Gennaia barbarus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536; Loche, 



F.ipl. Alger, p. 55 (1867). 

 Barbary Falcon, Salvin ^ Brodr. Falconry, pi. xvii. (1855). 



Adult male. Above delicate bluish grey, with rather faint cross 

 bars of dusky blackish, much broader on the interscapulary region, 

 and gradually fading in depth towards the lower back ; crown dusky 

 brown, with a tinge of grey, the forehead bufiy white, and the fore 

 part of the crown slightly washed with rufous ; hind neck entirely 

 rufous, here and there mottled with the greyish brovra of the head ; 

 feathers imderneath the eye, fore part of the ear-coverts, and cheek- 

 stripe blacldsh ; hinder part of ear-coverts and sides of neck creamy 



