Order ACCIPITKES.] [Fam. FALCONID^E. 



HIEKACIDEA NOVJE ZEALANDIJL 



(QUAIL-HAWK.) 



New-Zealand Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 57 (1781). 



Falco novce seelanclice, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 268 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Falco australis, Hombr. et Jacq. Ann. Sci. Nat. 1841, p. 312. 



Hypotriorchis novce zealandice, Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 20 (1844). 



Falco harpe, Forst. Descr. Anim. p. 68 (1844). 



Hieracidea novce zealandice, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 80. 



Harpe novce-zealandice, Bonap. Comptes Rendus, xli. p. 652 (1855). 



Ieracidea novce zealandice, Gray, Hand-1. of B. i. p. 22 (1869). 



Native names. 

 Karearea, Kaiaia, Kaeaea, Kakarapiti, Karewarewa, and Tawaka. 



<y supra nigricanti-brunneus, pileo unicolori saturatiore : dorso fasciis irregularibus fulvescentibus transnotato : 

 remigibus nigricanti-brunneis, pogonio interno albo transfasciato : secundariis extus fasciis angustis 

 albidis notatis : Cauda nigricanti-brunnea, albido anguste et interrupts transfasciata : facie laterali 

 nigricante, supercilio indistincto et genis imis rufescentibus : gutture fulvescenti-albo, scapis plumarum 

 nigro indicatis : corpore reliquo subtus lsetius fulvescente, pectoris plumis saturate bmnneo medialiter 

 striatis et fulvo plus minusve distincte ocellatis : bypocbondriis imis cum cruribus et subcaudalibus 

 lsetissime castaneis : subalaribus fulvescentibus, castaneo tinctis, his et axillaribus fulvescenti-albo 

 ocellatis : rostro cyanescenti-nigro, ad basin mandibular corneo : cera pallide flava : pedibus flavis : iride 

 sordide flava. 



2 inari similis, sed paullo major. 



<S juv. supra fuliginoso-brunneus, pileo magis cinerascente : cauda minus distincte transfasciata : gutture 

 fulvescenti-albo, anguste brunneo striato : subtus fuliginoso-brunneus, pectore paullo nigricante et 

 hypocbondriis cruribusque vix castaneo tinctis : pectore medio albido obscure maculato : abdomine imo 

 crissoque fulvescentibus : hypochondriis distincte fulvo ocellatis : cera, et plaga oculari cyanescenti-albis : 

 pedibus plumbeis : ungulis nigicantibus. 



Pull, lanugine plumbea. indutus. 



Adult male. Crown of the head and nape glossy black ; upper surface generally brownish black, barred on the 

 scapulars and tail-coverts with rufous, and narrowly on the wing-coverts with rufous grey ; a line over 

 each eye, and sides of the neck, varied with rufous ; facial streak and ear-coverts black ; throat fulvous 

 white, with narrow black shaft-lines, broadening out towards the breast ; fore part of the neck and breast 

 fulvous varied with rufous, and having the centre of each feather brown ; sides of the body dark brown varied 

 with rufous, and with large rounded spots of fulvous white ; abdomen and vent rich fulvous ; under tail- 

 coverts and tibial plumes rufous brown, with narrow black shaft-lines ; quills and secondaries obscurely 



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