TINNUNCULUS. 



white ; feet whitish, tinged with blue, claws dark horn colour." 

 Total length 11-35 inches ; wings 6-1 inches; tail 2-7 inches ; bill 

 from foreliead 1 inch, from gape 1-2 inch ; tarsus 24 inches; mid 

 toe (s.u.) 1-5. Dark brown pin-feathers tinged with rufous-fawn 

 colour upon the sides of the breast; a broken row on the chest, hind 

 neck, interscapular region awd back dark brown tipped with liglit 

 rufous ; quills and wing-coverts where visible, black, strongly 

 margined with rufous-fawn, some of the secondaries showing rufous 

 fawn coloured spots or broken bars, pin-feathers of tlie upper tail- 

 coverts and tail blackish, broadly margined with deep fawn ; all 

 but the centre pair with a spot or band of rufous-fawn. 



Nestling, Reg. No. A. 9316. "Taken from the nest Novendjer 

 13th, 1880, Lachlan River, N.S. Wales. Female. Irides dark 

 brown ; bill and cere whitish ; legs and feet pale lead-blue, claws 

 black ; orbits pale bluish." Similar in plumage but slightly more 

 advanced than the preceding, feathers on the sides of the chest 

 blackish ; thighs and abdomen brown margined with fawn colour; 

 under tail-coverts fawn colour. Wing 6-3 inches ; tarsus 2-4 

 inches ; mid toe (s.u.) 1-5 inch. 



Nestling, Reg. No. B. 10156. "Taken from the nest October 

 29th, 1883, Mossgiel, N.S.W. Female'? Iris I'ich dark brown, cere 

 lead colour ; bill light horn colour; eyelids white ; legs white; 

 feet white tinged with bluish-lead colour, claws dark horn colour; 

 between three and four weeks old." Similar in plumage to the 

 preceding. Total length 10 inches ; wing 5-5 inclies ; tail 27 

 inches; bill 1-1 inch, from gape 1-2 inch, from nostril 0-7 inch; 

 tarsus 21 incli ; mid toe (s.u.) 1-6 inch. 



TINNUNCULUS. 



Tinnunculus cenchroides. 



Nankeen Kestrel. 

 Nestling, Reg. No. B. 10157. "Apparently about a week old, 

 taken from nest October 24th, 1883 ; eyes blackish, bill and cere 

 white, legs and feet yellowish." Total length 3-7 inches ; tarsus 

 0-8 inch ; bill from forehead 0-65 inch. Covered entirely with 

 whitish down, longest on the head. 



F. W. White, Priuter, 39 Market Street, "Sydney. 



