465 



and secondaries broadly tipped with white; tail black, with a broad term- 

 inal band of white; entire breast black, each feather with a large tear- 

 shaped drop of white along the center; under tail-coverts, vent, and 

 thighs pare white, as also are the under wing-coverts and axillaries; 

 bare skin of throat and face wrinkled and deep orange-color, as also 

 the cere; irides hazel. Total length, 19,5 inchest culnien, 2, wing, 15.5, 

 tail, 8.8;'tarsus, 3.2."— (Sharpe, 1. c.) 

 Specimens examined, 1, in Mus. Philad. Acad. Nat. Sciences. 



PHALCOB^E^^US (SENEX) AUSTRALIS. 



Falco australis Gm. S. N. i, 1783, 259.— Lath. Iiid. Ora. i, 1790, 16; Gon. Hist, i, 1821, 

 241.— Daud. Tr. Orn ii, 1800, 56,— Shaw, Zool. vii, 1812, 91. 

 Senex ansfralis Gray (J.E.) Jard. & Selby 111. Orn. n. s. 1839, sub pi. 24. — Gurxky, 



Cat. Rapt. Norw. Mus, 18K4, 20. 

 Milvcujo australis Gray Cat. Ace. B. M. 1818, 30. — Strickl. Orn. Syn. i, 1855, 21. — 

 Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 1.50.— Pelz. Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien,1862, 138.— Scl. & Salv. 

 Norn. Neotr. 1873, 122. 

 Ibj/eter australis Kaup ; Arch. f. Naturg. xvi, 1850, 41. — Sharpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. 



1874, 38. 

 Folyborus ansfralis Boxap. Consp. i, 1850, 13.— Schl. Mas. P.-B. Polybori, 1862, 3. 

 jSSlriorclds australis Boxap. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1854, 11. 

 Morphnus novw-zealandicc Cuv. Reg. An. i, 1817, 318. 



Falco novw-zealandiw Temji. PI. Col. i, 1823, pis. 192, 224. — Garx. Ann. Sc. Nat. vii : 



Isis, 1832, 181. 

 Poli/horus nova'-zealandicf ViG. Zool. Journ. i, 1824, 336. — Less. Man. i, 1828,88. — 



Darw. Journ. Adv. & Beag. 1839, 66.— Boxap. Consp. i, 1850, 13. 

 Circa'etus nova'-zealandiw Cuv. Reg. An. i, 1829, 328. 

 2EtriorcMs nova'-zealandiw Kaup, Class Stiug. Vog. 1844, 124. 

 Circa'etus antarcticus Less. Tr. 1831, 49. 



Pohjborus hrasiliensis KiXG, Voy. Beag. i, 1839, 532 (not of Vig. 1824, es Gm. 1788). 

 Milvac/o leucurus Darw. & Gould, Voy. Beagle, Birds, 1841, 15 (ex Forst.). — Gray, 



Hand List, i, 1869, 5. 

 Milvaf/o pezoporus Gould, Voy. Beagle, 1841, 13. 

 Vultur plancHs FoRST. Descr. Anim. 1844, 321 (uot of Lath. 1790 ). 

 ? Falco ambustus Gm. S. N. i, 1788, 252. 



Vultur ainbustus Lath. ind. Orn. i, 1790, 8. 

 Gypaetus ambustus Daud. Tr. ii, 1800, 26. 



Spizaetus ambustus Boxx. et Vieill. Enc. M<3th. iii, 1823, 1254. 

 Folyborus ambustus Strickl. Orn. Syn. i, 1855, 19. 

 ? Tawny Vulture Browx, 111. Zool. 1766, pi. 1. 

 Stateniand Eagle Lath. Gen. Synop. i, 1781, 40. 



Hob. — Tierra del Eiiego (Nat. Mus.). — Falkland Islands (Sharpe). 



Descriptions. 



Wing, 15.00-1G.70; tail, 9.00-11.00; culmen, 1.20; tarsus, 3.00-3.35 j 

 middle toe, 2.00. 



Adult. — General color dull black, the feathers of the neck and breast 

 marked with medial lanceolate streaks of dull white, these broader on 

 the breast and narrower on the nape ; inner side of the tibias and adja- 

 cent portion of the anal region ochraceous-rufous ; lining of the wing 

 mixed with the same. Tail with a terminal band of white, about 1.00 

 inch wide. 



"Bill yellowish, bluish horn-color at base; cere and feet of a bright 

 lemon-yellow; iris dark brown. Total length, 25. inches." — (Sharpe.) 



Young. — "Above smoky-brown, clearer on the wings; head and neck 

 blackish, the sides of the latter rufous-ochre, with brownish margins to 

 the feathers: the feathers of the nape and crown with narrow and indis- 

 tinct fulvous tips ; quills brown, primaries clear ochre at the base ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail ochraceous-brown, deeper brown on the external 

 margins ; under surface of the body smoky-brown, with rufous-brown 

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