75. I'ALco. 395 



Exp. C. Audi: ii. App. p. 14 (1849) ; £p. Consp. i. p. 24 (1850) ; 

 Strickl. Om. St/n. p. 80 (185oJ ; Schl. Mits. P.-B. Falc. p. 18 

 (1862); Gray,Hand-l. B. i. p. 18 (1869); Biggies, Orn. Amtr. 

 pt. 9 (1809). 

 Hierofalco subniger, Kmip, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 56 ; Bp. Hev. etMag. 

 de Zool. 1854, p. 536. 



Adult male. Everywhere dark brown, merging into black ; fore- 

 head, feathers below the eye, on the ear-coverts, and sides of the 

 neck more or less mottled with whitish ; throat white, streaked 

 with brown ; on the breast a few spots of buff here and there ; 

 under taU-coverts transversely barred with buffy white ; wings and 

 tail faintly barred underneath with very pale I'ufous ; cere yellow ; 

 bill lead-colour ; legs and feet leaden yellow, claws black ; iris dark 

 brown. Total length 17 inches, culmen 1'25, wing 14"3, tail 8*8, 

 tarsus 2. 



Female. Similar to the male, but a little larger. Total length 

 19-5 inches, culmen 1-25, wing 15-8, tail 10-5, tarsus 2-3. 



Hah. Australia. 



a. cJ ad. st. Australia. Purchased. 



h. $ ad. sk. Australia. John Gould, Esq. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Australia. John Gould, Esq. 



14. Falco subbuteo. 



The Hobby, Alhin, N. II. Birds, i. p. 6, pi. 6 (1738). 



Le Hobreau, Briss. Orn. i. p. 375 (1760). 



Falco subbuteo, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 127 (1766); Temm. Man. d'Orn. 



i. p. 25 (1820) ; Naum. Vog. Detdschl. i. p. 290, pi. 26 (1822) ; 

 Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi". 9 (1827); Gould, B. Eur. i. pi. 22 



(1837); Yarr. Hist. Brit. B. i. p. 40 (1843); Schl. u. Snsem. VUg. 



Eur. Taf. 10. fig. 1 (c. 1845) ; Kjarb. Om. Dan. Afb. iii. fig. 1 



(1851); Sclil. Vog. Nederl. pi. 8 (1854); Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 85 



(1855); Ilewits.' Eggs Brit. B. i. p. 26, pi. ix. fig. 1 (1856); 



Fritsch, Vng. Em: tab. iii. figs. 1, 2 (1858) : Radde, Reis. Sihir. ii. 



p. 100 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 9 ; More, His, 1865, p. 9 ; 



Gould, B. Gt. Br. pt. viii. (1865); Farm. Ibis, 1868, p. 412; 



Simdev. Si: Foql p. 215, pi. xxvi. fig. 4 (1869); Hetigl. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 33 (1869); Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 20"(1871); 



Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 340 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 59 ; Sharpe 



(§- Dresser, B. Eur. pt. iv. (1871); Godman, Ibis, 1872,' p. 105; 



Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 38 (1873). 

 Falco barletta, Baud. Traitc, ii. p. 129 (1800). 

 Ilypotriorcbis sublniteo, Buie, Isis, 1826, p. 976; Gray, Gen. of B. i. 



p. 20 (1844); Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 54; Bp. Consp. i. p. 25 



(1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 33 (1862) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1865, p. 258 ; 



Degl. 4- Gerbc, Orn. Eur. i. p. 85 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 21 



(1867) ; Hume, Rouqh Notes, i. p. 85 (1869) ; Graij, Han'd-l. B. i. 



p. 20 (1869) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 14 (1872). 

 Falco birundinum, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 65 (1831). 

 Dendrofalco subbuteo. Gray, List Gen. of B. ^. 3 (1840). 

 Dendrofalco hirimdinuin, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 269. 

 Dendrofalco arboreua, Brehm, ut supra. 

 Hypotriorchis cuvieri, Gray, Haml-l. B. i. p. 20 (1869, nee Smith). 



Advil male. Above dark slaty grey, inclining to blackish on the 



