328 FALCO TINNUNCULUS. 



with dusky shaft lines ; the tail with a subterminal black bar, 

 an inch and a quarter in breadth, the tips greyish-white. The 

 throat is yellowish- white. Anterior to the eye is a semicircle 

 of black, continuous with a narrow, broken mystachial band 

 of the same. The lower parts are pale yellowish-red, each 

 feather with a narrow central line ending in a lanceolate or 

 triangular spot of brownish-black ; the feathers of the abdomen 

 and the lower tail-coverts are paler and unspotted, those of 

 the tibia of a clearer red, some of them with a dusky line. 



Length to end of tail log inches, to end of wings 11^; ex- 

 tent of wings 28 ; wing from flexure 9f ; tail 6^ ; bill along 

 the ridge ^"|, along the edge of lower mandible /g ; tarsus 1^ ; 

 first toe /g, its claw j% ; second toe j%, its claw j% ; third 

 toe 1, its claw j\ ; fourth toe ^%, its claw |%. 



Female. — The female differs less in size than in any other 

 British species of the genus ; but is readily distinguished from 

 the male by having all the upper parts light red, of a paler 

 tint, and barred with dark brown, each feather of the back 

 having four dark and three red bars, exclusive of the tip. On 

 the scapulars the bars are more numerous ; the secondary 

 quills are similarly marked ; but the primary quills are as in 

 the male, only their light confluent spots being more or less 

 tinged with red. The head and hind-neck are longitudinally 

 streaked ; the rump feathers are tinged with grey, as are those 

 of the tail ; on which are twelve dusky bars, of which the last 

 is about three quax'ters of an inch in breadth, the tips being 

 whitish. The lower parts are pale yellowish-red ; the throat 

 and abdomen without markings, the fore neck longitudinally 

 streaked with dark brown, the breast with guttiform spots, the 

 feathers of the sides barred. The lower wing-coverts are whitish, 

 with oblong dusky spots. The colours of the bill, eyelids, feet, 

 and claws, as in the male. 



Length to end of tail 14^ inches, to end of wings 12j ; ex- 

 tent of wings 80 •, wing from flexure 9| ; tail 7^ ; hill along 

 the ridge ^% ; tarsus 1^-^ ; first toe |, its claw ^^g ; second 

 toe 1%, its claw j% ; third toe 1^^, its claw j% ; fourth toe j%, 

 its claw J J. 



