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GENUS FALCO. 



^^LMOST every part of the world is inhabited by one or more members of this genus. 



FALCO HYPOLEUCUS (Gould). 



GREY FALCON. 



THE Grey Falcon is a native of South and Western Australia, being chiefly found in the interior, 

 in mountainous and rocky regions. 



It is so rare that next to nothing has been discovered of its characteristics and habits. 



Although, in structure, it resembles the European species, it is much less powerful, but in 

 point of fierceness is equal, perhaps, to any of the Raptorial birds. 



The whole of the upper and under surface and wings is grey, each feather marked with 

 black ; primaries margined with brownish-black ; tail, brownish-grey, barred with black ; irides, legs, and 

 feet, reddish-brown ; bill, yellow, tipped with black. 



Habitats : South and Western Australia. 



FALCO LUN FLATUS (Lath.) 



WHLTE-FRON TED FALCON. 



THE Falco Lumdatus, one of the oldest known and at the same time the smallest of the Australian 

 Falcons, is an inhabitant of Tasmania and all the southern part of Australia, and rare specimens 

 have also been procured on the North Coast. 



It subsists on small birds, especially quails, and also on insects. 



The eggs, which are one inch and five-sixths long, by one inch and a third broad, are laid 

 in a large nest built of sticks, lined with bark, and placed on one of the topmost branches of a 

 lofty tree. They are light buff colour, blotched and spotted with darker colour. 



The forehead is reddish-buff ; the crown of the head, ear-coverts, upper surface, and wings, 

 dark greyish-brown, the internal webs of the primaries marked with buff; two centre tail-feathers, 

 grey, barred with black, the remainder alternate dark grey and reddish-chestnut ; throat and chest, 

 buffy-white ; rest of under surface, dark reddish-brown, marked on the flanks with brownish-blark ; 

 irides, reddish-brown ; bill, black ; legs and feet, reddish-brown. 



Habitats : Tasmania and southern part of Australia, also, but rarely, the North Coast. 



