120 



Gen. LXXXIII. HARPA Bp. (1855). 



273. 



Size much larger ; middle toe very long. 

 Length ? 18.5; wing 10.8-11.4; tail 8.3 

 ins. ; (J wing 9.8-10.3 in. ; 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. 



Harpa novce-zealandice novce-zealandice 

 (Gmel.) S.N., i., p. 268 (1789). [ex. Lath. 

 — New Zealand.] 

 New Zealand Ouail-Falcon. 



New 



Zealand ; 

 Auckland 

 Islands. 



Smaller; wing (^ 9-9.2 ; $ 9.7-10.1 in. ; 

 plumage similar ; [scarcely distinguish- 

 able except by sexing]. 

 273a. Harpa novce-zealandice pottsi* Math, and 

 Iredale, Ibis, 1913, p. 420. [Puroah Bay, 

 N. Island.] 

 Bush Falcon. 



New 

 Zealand. 



Gen. LXXXIV. FALCO Linn. (1758). 



Distance between tips of primaries and tips of 

 secondaries more than half length of tail ; first 

 and third quills equal, second longest ; feet large 

 and powerful ; tarsus short, reticulated ; toes 

 long with curved and sharp claws, the outer toe 

 rather longer than inner. 



* H. mistralis (Hombr. & Jacq.) being not tenable, the small form 

 has been re-named by Mathews and Iredale. 



