130 



28 1 Falco hypoleucus Gould, P.Z.S. 1840, p. Australia. 

 162 (1841). [60 miles from Swan River, 

 W . Australia. A 

 Grey Falcon. 



Size large ; wing (^14.3, $ 15.8 in. ; general 

 colour blackish brown ; forehead and 

 sides of head and neck and under tail- 

 coverts mottled with white ; throat white, 

 streaked with brown ; breast slightly 

 spotted with buff ; tail barred. 

 282. Falco subniger suhniger Gray, Ann. Mag. Australia. 

 N.H. xi., p. 371 (1843). {Victoria.-] 

 Black Falcon. 



Without bars on tail. 

 282a. Falco suhniger minnie Math.. Austr. Av. 

 Rec. ii., p. ^127 (1915). {Queensland.'] 

 Queensland Black Falcon. 



Queens- 

 land. 



283. 



Size large ; wing (^13.60-14.80, ? 15.25-16 

 in. ; head blackish grey ; above dark 

 slate grey barred with pale bluish grey ; 

 wings and tail browner, latter barred with 

 bluish grey and tipped with white ; below 

 white with a broad slate brown mousta- 

 chial stripe, the breast and abdomen with 

 drop-shaped stripes and flanks barred ; 

 bill bluish, tip black ; feet yellow. 

 Falco rusticolus rusticclus Linn., S.N. i., p. 

 88(1758). {Sweden.] 

 Norwegian Gyrfalcon. 



N. Sweden 

 & Norway ; 

 Lapland ; 

 N. Russia ; 

 S. in winter 

 to middle 

 Europe. 



Larger ; wing (^14.5, $16 in. ; above dark 

 slate, barred with greyish white, the head 

 streaked with dusky slate and huffish 

 white ; chin and throat white ; below 

 white, chest streaked and belly and sides 

 spotted with slaty black. 



