226 FALCON. 



than the rest of the plumage ; tail eight inches long, crossed with 

 twelve or fourteen obsolete dusky bars ; quills the same, but the 

 bars only on the inner webs; legs stout, scaly, three inches in length, 

 and yellow, the feathers hanging over the joint before ; claws long 

 and pale. 



Inhabits New South Wales — found about Parametta ; perhaps 

 differing ft-om the other only in sex. 



159.— FAIR FALCON. 



Falco clarus, Ir.d. Orn. Sup. p. xiii. Shaw's ZooL vii. 184. 

 Fair Falcon, G^,n, Syyi, Sup. ii. p. 54. 



THIS is about 12 in. in length. Bill pale brown; irides and 

 legs yellow ; head, neck before, and beneath the body, white, but 

 the crown of the head and middle of the belly, pale blue; back, 

 wings, and tail, brown ; bend of the wing brownish blue, occupj- 

 ing, in an oblique manner, above half the coverts. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; manners unknown. 



Another, very similar, spotted on the nape with black ; back 

 paler ; tail tipped with pale-colour ; all beneath white, without any 

 tinge of blue. Probably the female ? 



