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Order FALC0NIF0RME8 Family FALCONIDjE. 
No. 312. 
NOTOFALCO SUBNIGER. 
BLACK FALCON. 
(Plate 255.) 
Falco SUBNIGER Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 371, 1843 ; Hab. unknown : 
I have fixed Victoria. 
Falco mhniger Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 371, 1843 ; Gould, Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., pi. 9, 1848 ; Sturt, Exped. Centr. Austr., Vol. II., App., p. 14, 1849 ; 
Gould, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 28, 1865 ; Higgles, Orn. Austr., pt. ix., 
1866 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 394, 1874 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.) 1875, p. 339 (Q.) ; Ramsay, ^6., p. 579 (Q.) ; id., Oat. Austr. Accip., p. 50, 
1876 ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; Bennett, ih., Vol. X., 
p. 162, 1885 (N.S.W.) ; Ramsay, ih., Ser. II., Vol. I., 1886, p. 1142, 1887 (N.S.W.) ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 1, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 12, p. 18, 1890 ; 
id.. No. 4, p. 55, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 3, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 33, 1901 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. II., p. 11, 1902 
(Viet.) ; Berney, ih., Vol. V., p. 18, 1905 (Q.) ; 0. F. B(elcher), ih., p. 204, 1906 (Viet.) ; 
Hill, ih., Vol. VE., p. 177, 1907 (Viet.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 42, 1908 ; 
Broadbent, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 233, 1910 (Q.) ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, 
Vol. III., p. 269, 1912 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 252, 1912 ; 
MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 152, 1914 (Q.) ; Barnard, ih., p. 206 (N.T.). 
Hierofalco svhniger Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 24, 1850. 
Oennaia svbnigra Gurney, Ibis 1882, p. 452. 
Falco niger (error) Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 3, 1907 (Viet.). 
Notofalco suhniger Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 112, 1913; S. A. White, Trans. Roy. 
Soc. South Austr., Vol. XXXVIII., p. 426, 1914 (Central). 
Notofalco suhniger minnie Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 127, Jan, 28th, 1915; 
Minnie Downs, Queensland. 
Notofalco suhniger svhniger Mathews, ih. 
Distribution. Australia. Not Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour above and below sooty-black, with pale markings on the inner 
webs of the primary-quills towards the base, and pale tips to the tail-feathers ; chin 
and ear-coverts smoky-white with dark shaft-lines ; the feathers of the breast and 
abdomen have white bases. Bill dark indigo ; feet bluish-white ; eyes clear brown. 
Total length 500 mm. ; culmen 22, wing 370, tail 220, tarsus 48. Figured. Collected 
on Minnie Downs, Central Queensland, on the 6th of January, 1882. 
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