FALCON. 161 



feathers black ; tail rufous brown, marked on each side of the shafts 

 ivith oblique bars of white, five or six at least, but none of them 

 touching the shaft ; the end, for near an inch, plain rnfous brown ; 

 legs yellow. 



The female is 23 in. in length ; bill, cere, and irides the same ; 

 the plumage on the upper parts deep brown, with a few transverse 

 pale markings ; beneath dusky white, with broad dashes of brown ; 

 sides of the belly, and thighs inclining to ferrviginous, dashed with 

 brown; vent pale yeUow, with the same brown markings; tail 

 fasciated transversely with white, but the markings less conspicuous. 



The young bird differs, having a few longitudinal pale streaks 

 on the neck ; the body plain brown, or very little marked ; and the 

 tail without bars, though the end is very pale, approaching to white. 



Inhabits New Zealand ; found in Queen Charlotte's Bay ; has 

 the appearance of a Vulture about the head and neck, and the 

 feathers of the latter loose and waving, nor is the bird, when adult, 

 so well clothed about the eyes, as the Falcons in general. How- 

 ever, Dr. Forster assured me, that the manners are entirely those of 

 the Falcon, and was of opinion, that the one figured in the Synopsis 

 was a young, and incomplete bird. Two of the above were brought 

 from New Zealand, by Captain Clark, in 1 775. 



85.— MADAGASCAR FALCON. 



Falco Madagascariensis, Dand.ii. 75. Shaw^t Zool. vn. 169. 

 Autour a ventre raye de Madagascar, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. pi. 103. 

 Madagascar Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 32. 



SIZE of a Pheasant. Bill black, cui*ved fi-om the base ; orbits 

 naked, yellow, with a bare skin reaching from thence to the hind 



