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and upper tail-coverts creamy white ; 

 wing-coverts with blackish central streaks 

 and spots of white on each web ; quills 

 blackish with large spots of white ; tail 

 black, all but central feathers spotted on 

 outer and barred on inner web with white ; 

 sides of face and eyebrow white, mous- 

 tachial streak black ; below ashy white, 

 with blackish central streaks ; vent and 

 thighs white. 



Gen. XCIII. NESIERAX Oberholser (Pr. Phil. Ac. 1899, p. 203) 

 Type by orig. desig. Falco novcs-seelandics Gmel. 

 [New name for Harpa, Bp.] 



Size much larger (length 16-18.5 in.) ; middle toe very long ; wing 

 with third primary longest, instead of second as in Falco. 



*288. Nesierax novce-seelandicB novce-seelandice New Zealand 



(Gmel.) S. N., i., p. 268 (1788). [ex Lath. Auckland 



— New Zealand.] Islands. 

 New Zealand Quail-Falcon. 



Wing S 248-260, ? 273-289 ; tail 2 10 mm. ; 

 above blackish brown, narrowly barred, 

 except on head, which is blackish, with pale 

 rufous ; quills and tail barred with greyish 

 white ; the tail bands 8 in number ; ear- 

 coverts and moustachial streak black ; 

 below buffy white, the breast and abdomen 

 with central streaks of dark brown, broader 

 on sides, which are also ocellated with large 

 white spots ; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 bright rusty red with dark brown shaft- 

 streaks. 



