FALCON, 57 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 38- 



9 J NEW-ZEA- 



'"pHE male is of the fize of the Gentil Falcon : length eighteen F> 



inches. The bill blue at the bafe, and black at the tip: cere N - S.. 



luteous : orbits blue : irides the fame : in each noftril is a lobe 



or divifion. General colour above black brown j beneath 



fpotted with rufous : quills and tail fpotted with grey : legs 



luteous. 



The female is larger, meafuring in length twenty-three inches. Feum-h. 

 Cere and orbits naked and yellow : head and breaft deep brown : 

 throat, neck, and belly, marked with longitudinal whitifh lines: 

 thighs ferruginous, marked with longitudinal black ftria? : vent 

 pale yellow, with ferruginous longitudinal ftriae : tail brown, 

 tranfverfely fafciated with white : legs yellow: claws black. 



Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Bay, New Zealand. It has much the 

 air of a Vulture, both about the head and neck : the feathers of 

 which laft are loofe and waving, as in fome Vultures : added to 

 the bird's not being well cloathed with feathers about the eyes 

 and bill : however, I am aflured that the manners are entirely 

 thofe of the Falcon genus, which will at once fet afide any 

 further thoughts about it. 



That in the Leverian Mufeum is a female, but has no apparent 

 bands on the tail. Dr. Forfter, who examined it with me, is of 

 opinion that it may be a young bird. 



Falco 



