422 FAtCONID^. 



berigora. Both these species are very distinct one from the other, 

 in their adult and in their young plumages. 

 Hub. Australia. 



Linnean Society [P.]. Types 



of species. 

 Sir D. Cooper [P.]. 

 Su- George Grey [P.]. 



Sir George Grey fP. 

 Sir George Grey [P. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 

 J. 11. Elsey, Esq. [P.], 



2. Hieracidea orientalis. 



Cream-beUied Falcon, Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 230 (1821). 

 Hieracidea berigora, Grai/, Gen. of B. i. p. 20 (1844) ; Gould, B. 



Austr. i. pi. 11 (1848); Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 22 (1850); Kaup, Contr. 



Orn. 1850, p. 56 ; Bp. Bev. et Mag. cle Zool. 1854, p. 536 ; Strickl. 



Orn. Si/n. p. 101 (1855); Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, xiii. p. 621 



(1803) ; Gmild, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 31 (1865) ; Pek. Bets. Nov. 



Vog. p. 8 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 22 (1869), 

 Falco* berigora orientalis, SM. Naum. 1855, p. 254. 

 Falco berigora, Schl. Mm. F.-B. Falc. p. 37 (1862). 



Adult male. Above brown, the feathers very slightly inclining to 

 rufous on their edges, these margins being a little more distinct on 

 the inner secondaries ; crown slightly paler brown, with indistinct 

 blackish shaft-stripes, the nape mixed with white ; forehead and a; 

 distinct eyebrow, as well as the sides of the face and of the neck, 

 creamy or huffy white ; a narrow streak above the supraorbital 

 ridge, as well as a scant stripe from the fore part of eye across the 

 cheek, and another running under the eye along the upper margin of 

 ear-coverts, blackish brown, collecting a little behind the latter ; 

 quills dark brown, the primaries and outer secondaries tipped with 

 whitish, spotted on outer web and barred on the inner one with 

 rufous, the inner face of the quills whitish, owing to all biit the ter- 

 minal bars being joined together; tail brown, with an ashy gloss on the 

 upper surface, shghtly tipped with white, barred with rufous on the two 

 centre feathers, but not right across the feather, the others barred on 

 the inner and spotted with rufous on the outer web, the latter marks 

 gradually becoming less on the outer feathers ; under surface of body 

 creamy buff, the sides of the body and outer face of thighs brown, 

 converging towards the centre of the lower breast, some of the 

 feathers edged with fulvous ; under wing-coverts rich creamy buff, 

 the lower ones and the axillaries marked with brown ; cere and 

 orbits pale bluish lead-colour ; feet very light lead-colour ; iris 

 very dark brown. Total length 15-3 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 13, 

 tail 8, tarsus 2-5. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but larger. Total length 

 17-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 13-9, tail 8-5, tarsus 2-65. 



Toung:. Warmer and more chocolate-brown than the adults, frona 



