Order FALCONIFORMES 
No. 309. 
Family FALCONIDM 
FALCO LONGIPENNIS. 
LITTLE FALCON. 
(Plate 252.) 
Falco LONGIPENNIS Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 341, Jan. 1838 : Tasmania. 
Lunated Falcon Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 54, 1801. 
Falco lunulatus Latham (not Daudin 1800), Suppl. Index Ornith., p. xiii., 1801 
(N.S.W.) ; Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 189, 1843 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 29, 1865 ; Eamsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 393 
(Q.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 398, 1874 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1875, p. 339 (Q.) ; Ramsay,. «6., p. 579 (Q.) ; id.. Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 51, 
1876; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. 2, Vol. I., p. 1096, 1887 (N.W.A.); Legge, 
Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 1886, p. 237, 1887 (Tas.) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 19, 1890 ; Cox and Hamilton, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IV., p. 398, 1890 (N.S.W.) ; North, Austr. 
Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 57, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 3, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. L, p. 34, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 10, 
1902 (Viet.) ; Hall, ih., Vol. III., p. 40, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Berney, ih., Vol. V., p. 18, 
1905 (Q.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XIL, p. 209, 1905 (N.T.) ; C. F. B(elcher), Emu, 
Vol. V., p. 204, 1906 (Viet.) ; Austin, ih., Vol. VII., p. 28, 1907, N.S.W. ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 42, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 29, 1909 (Q.) ; 
Mathews, ih., p, 57, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; Gibson, ih., p. 72, 1909 (S.W.A.) ; Crossman, 
ih., p. 86, 1909 (W.A.) ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 7, 1910 (Tas.) ; Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 168 (W.A.) ; Wbitlock, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 191, 1910 (W.A.) ; 
HiU, ih., Vol. X., p. 267, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XL, p. 22, 1911 
(N.Q.) ; Stone, ih., Vol. XII,, p. 113, 1912 (Viet.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Oat., 
no. 1, Vol. III., p. 272, 1912 ; Hill, Emu, Vol. XIL, p. 245, 1913 (Central) ; 
MacgiUivray, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 152, 1913 (Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XIII., p. 206, 
1913 (N.T.). 
Sparvius lunulatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. X., p. 324, 1817 ; id., Tabl. 
Ency. Meth., Vol. III., p. 1264, 1823. 
Falco lov^ipennis Swainson, Anim. in Menag., p. 341, Jan. 1838 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 110, 1913 ; S. A. White, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXXVIII., 
p. 425, 1914 (Central). 
