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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. XCIIT. NESIERAX Oberholser (Pr. Phil. Ac: 1899, p. 203) 
Type by orig. desig. Falco nove-seelandie 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  nova-seelandie nove-seelandie New Zealand ; 
(Gmel.) S. N.,1., p. 268 (1788). [ex Lath. Auckland 
—New Zealand. | Islands. 
New Zealand Quail-Falcon. 
Wing ¢ 248-260, 2 273-289 ; tail 210 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. 
