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2 Hieracidea orieutalis. 



77(6 Broum Haivk. 

 Cream-bellied Falcon, Lafh. Gen. Hlit., vol. i, p. 230 (1821). 

 Hieracidea berigora, Gray, Gen. Bds., vol. i, p. 20 (1845) ; Gould, Bds. 



Ausfr., vol. i, pi. 11 (1848) ; Bonap. Consp. Ar., torn, i, p. 22(1850); 



Kaup, Contr. Orn. (1850), p. 56 ; Bonap. liav. et Afar/, de Zool. 



(1854), p. 536 ; Stricl^l., Orn. Syn., p. 101 (1855) ; Pefz. Verh. z-b. 



Wien., xiii, p. 621 (1863) ; Goidd, Handbk. Bds. Ainitr., p. 31, sp. 



11 (1865) ; Pelz. Beis. Novara. Vog., p. 8 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-list 



Bds., vol. i, p. 22 (1869) ; Sharpe, fr.dex Goidd's Works, p. 152 



(1893). 



Falco berigora orieutalis, Srhleg. Naumannia (1855), p. 254. 



Hieracidea orieutalis, Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., vol. i, p. 422 (1874) 

 Bamsay and Castlenau, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vol. i, p. 379 

 (1877) ; Shar})e, Journ. Linn. Soc, vol. xiv, p. 627 (1879) ; Sa/rad., 

 Orn. Pap. et Molwx., p. 39 (1880) ; Gurney, List Diurn. Bds. Prty, 

 p. 96 (1884) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. i, 2nd ser., 

 p. 1086 (1887) ; id. op. n7., vol. ii, 2nd ser., p. 166 (1888) ; id. Tab. 

 List Austr. Bds., p. 1 (1888) ; Sa/i-ad., Agg. Orn. Pap. et Moliicc, 

 p. 15 (1889) ; North, Proc Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. iii, 2nd ser., 

 p. 1773 (1889) ; id. Nests and Eggs Austr. Bds., p. 20, pi. iii, fig. 

 2 (1889) ; Norton, Bidl. No. 1, Dept. Agri., N. S. IF., p. 246 (1890); 

 Cox and Ham, Proc Linn. Soc, N.S. W., vol. iv, 2nd ser., p. 399 

 (1890) ; North, torn, cit., p. 1023 (1890) ; Gurney, Jan., Cat. Bds. 

 Prey, p. 27 (1894). 



Adult male. " Above brown, the feathers very slightly inclin- 

 ing 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 of the sides 

 of the face and of the neck, creamy or bufty white ; a narrow 

 streak above the supraorbital ridge, as well as a scant stripe from 

 the fore part of the eye across the cheek, and another running 

 under the eye along the upper margin of the ear-coverts, blackish 

 brown, collecting a little behind the latter ; quills dark brown, 

 the primaries and outer secondaries tipped with whitish ; spotted 

 on the outer web and barred on the inner one with rufous, the 

 inner face of the quills wliitish, owing to all but the terminal bars 

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

 upper surface, slightly 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 



