410 



FALCONID^. 



very distinctly underneath ; upper tail-coverts pale slaty grey, with 

 distinct black shaft-stripes ; tail slaty grey, tipped with fulvous, 

 and crossed with four black bands, the subterminal one double the 

 breadth of any of the others ; forehead, eyebrow, and sides of face 

 fulvous, with narrow streaks of black, broader on the cheeks ; throat 

 fulvous ; rest of under surface ochraccous buff, with shaft-streaks of 

 dark brown, those on the flanks broader, and here mottled with 

 fulvous spots ; under wing-coverts coloured like the breast, streaked 

 and mottled with brown ; cere, orbits, aud feet yellow, claws black ; 

 iris brown. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 82, tail 5"4, 

 tarsus 1-4. 



Hah. The whole of ITorth America as far southwards as Venezuela. 



a. S juv. sk. 



b. S juv. St. 



c. (S juv. sk. 



d. $ ad. sk. 



e. (S ad. sk. 

 /. cJ juv. sk. 

 g. <S juv. sk. 



h. Skeleton, 

 i. Skeleton. 

 k. Sternum. 



N. America. 

 N. America. 

 Quebec. 



Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie- 

 River district, May 23, 1861. 

 Fort Simpson, May 11, 1862. 



Off Malpelo Island. 



Dr. Ridgway [P. 

 Dr. Ridgway [P. 

 D.W. Mitchell, Esq. [P.]. 

 Bernard H. Ross, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Bernard H. Ross, Esq. 



Capt. Kellett and Lieut. 



Wood 



[P.]. 



At sea, lat. 13° 22' N., long. Capt. Ke lett and Lieut. 

 102° 4' W., about 300 miles Wood [P.]. 

 off land. 



Purchased. 

 Zoological Society. 

 P. H. Gosse, Esq. [P.]. 



76. HIEROFALCO. 



Type. 



Hierofalco, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 312 (1817) H. candicans. 



Pnigohierax, Cab. J.f. O. 1872, p. 156 H. sacer. 



Foot of Hierofalco candicans. 



Mange. The whole of Europe and Northern Asia, the whole of 

 North America as far as Mexico. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Thighs pure white, or white streaked, but never 

 barred, with brown. 

 a. Tail white, with no complete bars on any of 

 the feathers. 



