52 AcciriTEEs. 



Soc. Quetnsld., vol. v, ]}. 15 (1889) ; Salvad. Aggiinite Orn. Pap. 

 H Molucc, pt. 1, p. 13 (1889) ; North, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 vol. iii, 2nd ser., p. 1773 (1889) ; Cox and Ham., Proc. Linn. Soc, 

 N.S.W-, vol. iv, 2nd ser., p. 398 (1890); Bennett, Bee Austr. 

 Mils., vol. i, pp. 107-8 (1891); North, Bee Austr. Miis., vol. ii, 

 p. 12 (1892) ; Sharpe, Index Gould's Works, p. 109 (1893); Newton, 

 Diet. Bds., pt. 1, p. 236 (1893) ; Giirney, jun., Cat. Eds. Prey, p. 

 29(1894); Sdater, List Vert. Anim. Zool. Card., 9th ed., p. 396 

 (1896) ; Ecerett, Nov. Zool, vol. iii, p. 597 (1896). 

 Falco macropus, Swain's Anim. in Menarj., p. 341 (1837). 



Falco communis, part, Schleg. Mus. Pays-Bas, Falcones, p. 3 (1863) ; 

 id. V6(j. Ned. Ind., p. 22, pi. i, fig. 2 (1866). 



Adult male. The whole of the head, the nape, and the hack of 

 the neck, sides of the face, ear-coverts, and cheeks, extending to 

 the sides of the throat, hlack ; throat pale buff, almost white ; 

 chest creamy buff, deepening in tint towards the breast, where 

 the feathers have a pale rufous shaft-stripe, and frequently a spot 

 of black near the tip ; the rest of the under surface buffy white, 

 closely barred with narrow cross lines of black ; the flanks, sides 

 of the body, and thighs'washed with bluish grey ; the breast and 

 central portion of the abdomen washed with pale rufous fawn, 

 shaft-lines rufous fawn on the interspaces ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts light buff", barred with brownish black, and washed 

 with bluish grey ; the greater series and the under surface of 

 the primaries, dark ashy brown, barred with buff}' white ; inter- 

 scapular region black, having a few transverse obsolete bars of 

 bluish ashy grey ; the remainder of the upper surface bluish ashy 

 grey barred with black and having a black shaft-stripe, which 

 joining the bars, gives them a somewhat triangular form on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; the bands on the tail broad, eleven or 

 twelve in number, and increasing in size towards the tip where, 

 being broadest, they take a triangular form ; the tips of all the tail- 

 feathers creamy white ; the secondaries and inner primaries above 

 narrowly margined with creamy white at the tips, the interspaces 

 on the inner webs, towards the base, washed with buff ; the pri- 

 maries at the tips and on the outer webs black, on the inner brown- 

 ish at the base, barred with rufous buff, the bars obsolete towards 

 the tip, wliere they are washed with bluish grey nearest the shaft, 

 and confined to the middle portion of the web ; bill bluish green 

 at the base, blackish horn-colour at the tip, lower mandible 

 greenish yellow, bluish horn-colour at the tip ; cere greenish grey ; 

 iris hazel ; legs and feet greyish yellow ; claws dark horn-colour. 

 Total length lG-5 inches, wing 12-7, tail 67, tarsus 2'0, bill 

 from gape 2-3, from forehead I'l, culmeu 1-2. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, but larger and 

 more highly coloured; theunder surface is washed with deep rufous 

 fawn, being pale rufous on the chest and buff on the throat ; the 



