420 FALCONID-E. 



6. Hierofalco mexicanus. 



Falco mexicanus, Schl. Ahhandl. Geh. Zool. SfC. p. 15 (1841, ex Licht. 



Mm. Berol.) ; Bp. Consp. i.p. 24 (1850) ; Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 5 



(1854) ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. Falcones, p. 18 (18G2) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 20 (1869) ; Ridgwatj, Pr. Phil. Acad. 1870, p. 140 ; Scl. ^ Salv. 



iVomewc/. p. 121(1873). 

 Falco polyagrus, Cass. B. Calif, p. 88 (1853) ; id. Pr. Phil. Acad. 1855, 



p. 277 ; Strickl. Orn. Sipi. p. 85 (1855) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1805, p. 323 ; 



Cones, Pr. Phil. Acad. 18l36, p. 42 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 20 



(1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, ed. Baird, p. 458 (1870). 

 Hierofalco mexicanus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536. 

 Pnigohierax mexicanus, Cab. J.f O. 1872, p. 156. 



Adult. General colour clear brown, the wings and tail of about the 

 same colour as the back, the primaries darker brown, all the feathers 

 of the upper parts margined with pale fulvous brown, broader and 

 more whitish on the wing- coverts and secondary quills; tail- 

 feathers and upper tail-coverts brown, the inner webs darker brown, 

 all conspicuously tipped and obsoletely barred with buffy white ; the 

 two middle feathers scarcely marked at all, the rest half-barred 

 across on the inner wob, and slightly spotted on the outer web near 

 the tip, the bars on the outermost feather narrower and more indi- 

 stinct, but present on the outer web also near the base ; feathers of 

 the crown of the head and neck bordered with whitish, giving rather 

 a distinct striped appearance, more especially on the hind neck, the 

 forehead clearly whitish ; sides of the face and neck whitish, with 

 brown centres to the feathers ; chin and top of the throat pure white ; 

 rest of the under surface white, with central markings of clear brown, 

 rather oval in shape, giving a very distinctly striped appearance to 

 this side of the body ; flank-feathers darker brown, broadly margined 

 with white on the outer web, and marked with a large spot of white 

 about the middle of the inner one ; cere, iris, legs, and feet light 

 yellow, claws black ; bill bluish black. Total length 19-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 13-7, tail 9, tarsus 2-5. 



Hab. Mexico and the southern States of North America. 

 o. Ad. sk, Mexico. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



77. HIERACIDEA. rpyp^ 



leracidea, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 141 H. berigora. 



Leg of Hieracidea berigo7-a. 



