98 ■ FALCONID-l^. 



111. Orn. iii. pi. cxxi. (p. 1835); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 27 (1849); 

 Kemp, Contr. Orn, 1850, p. 66: Up. Consp. i. p. 31 (1850); Ccm. 

 B. Calif, p. 93 (1855) ; StricU. Orn. Syn. p. 118 (1855) ; Cass, in 

 Bair(l,'B. N. Am. p. 15 (1800); Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 17 

 (1862) ; Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 29 (1869) ; Cooper, B. Calif, ed 

 Baird, p. 407 (1870) ; Neiot. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 87 (1871). 



Astur palumbarius (ncc Linn.), Sw. ^ Rich. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, 

 p. 39, pi. xxvi. (1831) ; Audub. B. Am. i. p. 95, pi. xxii. (1839). 



Diedalioii pictimi, Less. Traite, p. 67 (1831) ; Pucker. Rev. et Maq. 

 de Zool. 1850, p. 211. 



Falco palumbarius, Aud. B. N. Am. fol. pi. 141, et Orn. Biogr. ii. 

 p. 241 (1834). 



Young. Above dark brown, the feathers edged and tipped with 

 rufous ; the head streaked with rufous, the nape mottled with 

 white ; the eyebrow aud cheeks ochraceous buff, with narrow streaks 

 of dark brown ; quilla brown, barred with darker brown, the secon- 

 daries slightly tipped with whitish ; the under surface ashy white, 

 yellowish at base, with dark brown bars, dissolving into freckles on 

 the inner quills ; tail ashy brown, tipped with whitish, and crossed 

 with four bands of dark brown, the basal one concealed and nearly 

 obsolete ; under surface of body deep rufous ochre, narrowly streaked 

 on the throat, and more broadly on the chest, with blackish brown, 

 inclining to large heart-shaped spots on the flanks ; under wing- 

 coverts coloirred like the breast ; the axillaries barred with dark 

 brown. 



Adult. Above bluish ash-colour, the black shaft-stripes distinctly 

 indicated, the lower upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; quills 

 brown, barred with darker brown, the secondaries washed with 

 bluish ash- colour ; tail brown, shaded with the same ashy colour as 

 the back, crossed with four more or less obsolete bands of darker 

 brown, and tipped with white ; crown of head and ear-coverts jet- 

 black, the nape somewhat varied with white ; lores whitish ; a line 

 from behind the eye above the ear-coverts white, narrowly streaked 

 with blackish ; cheeks, sides of neck, and entire under surface greyish 

 white, freckled and vermiculated with ashy brown, taking the form 

 of irregular and ill-defined bars on the flanks, abdomen, and thighs, 

 the black shaft-stripes very distinct on the chest ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; tinder wing-coverts white, barred and freckled with ashy 

 brown ; cere yellow ; bill bluish black ; legs yellow ; iris yellow. 

 Total length 20-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 12-9, tail 9-5, tarsus 2-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. Total length 24 

 inches, wing 13-9, tarsus 3'1. 



Hah. The whole of North America, rarer in the Southern States ; 

 of accidental occurrence in Europe. 



a. 2 juv. st. N. America. 



h. 2 ad. St. N. America. J. Gould, Esq. 



c. 2 fid. sk, N. America. Mr. J. Ivrider. 



d. 2 jw^- sk. Repulse Bay. John Rae, Esq. [P.]. 



e. 2 Jiiv- 8^- British Columbia. J. K. Lord, Esq. [C.^ 



f. c? juv. sk. West side of Rocky Mormtains. .T. K. Lord, Esq. [P.' 

 y. (^ ad. st, N.W. America. Purchased. 



