298 FALCONIDiE. 



towards their tips, also barred with dark brown on their inner webs, 

 the secondaries ashy brown, inclining gradually to whity brown at 

 their tips, washed with rufous and barred with dark brown, the 

 lower surface of the wing creamy white on the inner webs of the 

 quills, somewhat washed with rufous ; tail ashy brown, whity brown 

 at tip and crossed with three or four broad bars of blackish brown, 

 the lower surface ashy white, the bars showing more plainly, except 

 on the outermost feather, where they are obsolete ; throat white, 

 with a mesial line of ashy brown, as well as two not very distinct 

 moustachial streaks ; upper breast ashy brown, washed with rufous, 

 the lower breast and abdomen barred with white and rufous brown, 

 the latter bars decreasing towards the vent and thighs, and totally 

 absent on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts with slight 

 cross markings of pale rufous ; biU leaden black, yellow at base ; 

 cere and feet yellow ; iris yellow*. Total length 18*5 inches, culmen 

 1-3, wing 13-1, tail 79, tarsus 2-4. 



Adult female. Larger than the male. Total length 18-5 inches, 

 wing 13-6, tail 8-4, tarsus 2-45. 



Young. Considerably different from the adult. Above dark brown, 

 the wing-coverts washed with rufous and tipped with dull white, 

 the greater ones with rufous or rufous white spots on both webs, 

 giving a mottled appearance to these parts ; forehead and eyebrow 

 creamy white ; crown and hind neck brown, the feathers margined 

 with creamy white, giving a striped appearance, the latter also 

 slightly washed with rufous ; sides of face ashy brown, streaked with 

 darker brown, the fore part of cheeks white ; under surface of body 

 creamy buff, the throat with a central blackish streak on the lower 

 part ; centre of chest streaked with dark brown, the breast with pale 

 chestnut, becoming spade-shaped spots on the flanks, but narrowing 

 to small streaks on the thighs, and disappearing altogether on the 

 under tail-coverts, which are creamy buff; under wing-coverts 

 creamy buff, with a few rufous-brown marks on the lower series, and 

 bars of the same on the axillaries ; upper tail-coverts brown, white 

 at the base and at the tips, and having the outer margin also white ; 

 tail ashy brown, tipped with pale rufous brown and crossed with 

 . five bars of darker brown, the subterminal one broader ; quills dark 

 brown, the secondaries paler, the base of the inner web white, with 

 remains of ashy bars on the inner secondaries ; cere and feet yeUow ; 

 bill black ; iris yellow f. 



Hab. Eastern Asia, from Japan southwards along the coast of 

 China to Formosa, thence found in Tenasserim and Malacca, through 

 the Malayan islands as far as New Guinea. 



a. c? ad. st. Japan. Purchased. 



b. c? ad. sk. Fokien, China. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 5 jnv. sk. Philippine Islands. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 



d. 2 jnv. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



* For a full description of the soft parts of this species, cf. Swinhoe, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 412. 

 t From a living bird in the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam. 



