34 FALCONIDiE. 



quills are indistinctly banded, and the tail with black 

 on an ashy ground : the legs and irides are orange- 

 yellow : the cere yellowish : it is near fourteen inches 

 in length : the female is upwards of sixteen inches 

 long, and differs in a few particulars from the male : 

 the plumage is generally of a deeper colour, and more 

 variegated : the dusky colour on the top of the head 

 and on the wings is less distinct : the under parts 

 are of a duller ash ; but dashed in the middle of each 

 feather as in the male : the tarsi and legs are more 

 robust than in the male, but less brilliant in colour. 



Sp. 7. Ac Soloensis. 



Ac. supra plumbeo-cinereus, infra sordidt * ferrugineus ; remigibus 

 nigris; tectricibus basi albis ; rectricibus (extemis exceptis) 

 nigrofasciatis, subtus albidis. 

 Sparrowhawk above ashy-blue, beneatli dull ferruginous, with the 

 cpiills black; the wing-coverts white at the base; the tail-fea- 

 thers (the exterior excepted) fasciated with black, beneath 

 whitish. 

 Falco Soioensis. Linn. Trans. (Horsf.) xiii. p. 137. Tcmm. PI. 

 Col. 129. 110; young. — Inhabits Java. Length eleven inches. 

 Sp. 8. Ac. musicus. Vigors. 



Falco musicus. Shaw, v. vii. p. 143. — Southern Africa. 

 Sp. 9. Ac. gabar. Vigors. 



Falco gabar. Shaxv, v. vii. p. 202. Temm. PL Col. 122 — 

 140 ; young. — The interior of Africa. 

 Sp. 10. Ac. minullus. 



Falco minullus. Shaxv, v. vii./;. 205. — The interior of Africa. 



GENUS XXL— HARPAGUS, Vigors. 



Rostrum breve; mandibula 

 superior fortiter bidentata, 

 inferior bis emarginata. 



Beak short ; the upper man- 

 dible strongly bidentate, 

 the lower doubly emargi- 

 nate. 



