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large and long, the bill should be smaller and more rounded in 

 towards the breast. I had the bird alive three months, and fed 

 it on small birds and fish, &c." 



Nos. 5, 6. Two more paintings of an Elanus, one-half and 

 one-third natural size. " Native name Geo-ga-rack" Latham 

 founds on this description his Axillary Falcon (Suppl. to Gen. 

 Synopsis, ii., p. 42). He says that it "inhabits New Holland, 

 but is not very common. The specimen from which the above 

 description was taken, was caught alive, and kept for ten months, 

 being fed with small birds, fish, &c." This note is taken from 

 Watling's MSS., but is not acknowledged. This picture becomes 

 the type of Latham's Axillary Fa]con ( = Falco axillaris, Lath., 

 Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. ix.). 



7. Represents an Elanus, which Latham, in his MS. list, 

 places as a variety of his Axillary Falcon, which is probably the 

 case. 



8. Is also considered by Latham to be a variety of his Falco 

 axillaris, but in reality it is a small figure of Haliaetus leucogaster 

 (Gm.). This latter name is founded on the White-bellied Eagle, 

 n. sp., of Latham (Gen. Syn., i., pt. i., p. 33*), where we read : 

 " This bird was brought to England in one of the last circum- 

 navigating ships, and is now in the Leverian Museum. Its 

 native place is unknown." 



9. An Owl. This picture of Watling's formed the subject of 

 Latham's description of his — 



Winking Falcon, Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii., p. 53. 



Falco connivens, Lath., Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. xii. 



Ninox connivens (Lath.), Sharpe, Cat. B., ii., p. 175. 

 Latham does not acknowledge the origin of his description, 

 merely adding : " Inhabits New Holland, but no history annexed, 

 further than that it has wonderful faculty of contracting and 

 dilating the iris ; and that the native name is ' Goora-a-Gang.' " 



These notes he has copied from Watling's MS., which, 

 however, gives the native name as " Goo-ree-a-gang." He also 

 writes : " This Bird has a wonderfull power of contracting and 

 dilating the iris and pupil." The picture is, therefore, the type 

 of Ninox connivens. 



10. " New Falcon." On this picture is founded the description 

 of Latham's Radiated Falcon, and the figure given by him is 

 adapted from Watling's picture. Thus the latter becomes the 

 type of 



* Cf. Sharpe, Cat. B., i., p. 117. 



