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A. — Height, when standing, 29 in. Bill and cere pale brown ; 

 plumage in general, above brown, beneath dun, or brownish cream- 

 colour, paler on the belly and thighs, the latter marked with 

 whitish spots ; wings deep brown ; edges of the feathers of the wing 

 coverts whitish ; qnills black ; inside of the wings spotted brown 

 and white, and of the quills brown black ; tail brown, very short, 

 the feathers pale on the edges, and the quills reach rather beyond the 

 end ; legs very stout, scaly, yellow ; claws black. 



152.— WINKING FALCON. 



Falco connivensj Ind. Orn. Sup. p. xii. Shaw''s Zool. vii. 186. 

 Winking Falcon, Gen, Syn. Siip.'\u p. 53. 



SIZE of the Ringtail; length 18 or 19 in. Bill pale, with a 

 black point; irides yellow; general colour of the plumage deep 

 chocolate brown, spotted with rusty white on the lower part of the 

 neck behind, and on the axillaries of the wings ; the quills obliquely 

 and the tail teathers transversely, barred with the same ; under parts, 

 as far as the breast, dirty yellowish white, marked with short dusky 

 streaks ; legs covered to the toes, with pale ash-coloured feathers ; toes 

 yellow, claws hooked, black. Some birds are without any white on tlie 

 lower part of the neck behind, but marked with white on the axillaries. 

 ' Inhabits New-Holland ; said to have a wonderful faculty of con- 

 tracting and dilating the iris. The name of the bird is Goora-a-gang. 



