75. FALco. 403 



Yoxing. Above black ; a narrow eyebrow of dull ochre ; nape 

 slightly mixed with nifous ; feathers of the upper surface narrowly 

 edged with pale ochraceous buff, broader and whiter on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; quills black, the outer secondaries conspicuously tipped 

 with white, with oval spots of rufous white on the inner webs ; tail 

 black, tipped with white, and having three or four Y-shaped bands 

 of white ; sides of the face black, Like the crown ; throat and sides 

 of neck white, washed with ochre ; chest ochre, with median stripes 

 of black ; breast black, the feathers margined and spotted with 

 ochre ; thighs and abdomen ochre, with black centres to the feathers ; 

 imder tail-coverts white, tinged with ochre and broadly barred with 

 black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries black, the former edged, 

 the latter spotted with ochre. Total length 15 inches, culmen 1-2, 

 wing 11-2, tail 6-2, tarsus 1-65. 



Hub. From Guatemala southwards through Guiana and Brazil. 



a. 5 juv. St. Bahia. 



b. S ad. sk. Demerara. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. [P.]. 



22. Falco cliicquera. 



Le Chicquera, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 30 (1799). 



Falco chicquera, Daud. Traitc, ii. p. 121 (1800, ex Levaill.) ; Less. 



Traite, p. 90 (1831): Goidd, Cent. B. Himal. Mts. pi. 2 (1832); 



Bhfth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. Beny. p. 14 (1849) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 25 



(1850) ; Strickl. Oni. Si/n. p. 87 (1855) ; Siindev. Krit. om Levaill. 



p. 26 (1857) ; sSchl. 3Ius. P.-B. Falc. p. 20 (1862). 

 Chicquera Falcon, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 27 (1801). 

 Fasciated Falcon, Lath. Gen. Hist. i.p. 189 (1821). 

 Hvpotriorchis chicquera, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 20 (1844) ; Horsf. 8i 



'Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 23 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Lid. i. p. 36 



(1862) : Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 22 (1869). 

 ^salon chicquera, Kaup, Class. Sduy. u. T'og. p. Ill (1844); id. 



Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 54. 

 Chicquera t}*pus, Bp. Ltev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 536. 

 Turumtia cliicquera, Bhjth, Lbis, 1863, p. 9. 

 Litliofalco chicquera, Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 91 (1869) ; Anders. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 681. 



Adult male. Entire head and hind neck chestnut ; forehead and 

 sides of the face and neck, as weU as the throat, white, with faint 

 indications of a chestnut moustache ; a few feathers below the eye 

 and a small eyebrow black ; entire upper surface clear slaty blue, 

 with remains of blackish cross bars, especially numerous on the wing- 

 coverts ; tail slaty blue, narrowly barred with black, tipped with 

 white, before which a broad subterminal black band ; quills blackish 

 brown, barred with greyish white on the inner web, the inner 

 secondaries slaty blue like the back : under surface of body white, 

 with a very few minute black shaft-lines on the chest, the breast 

 thickly crossed with black transverse bars, a little wider on the 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts white, barred in the same 

 manner as the breast ; cere, orbits, and feet yellow, the claws black ; 

 bill greenish yellow at base, black at tip ; iris rather light brown. 

 Total length ll'O inches, culmen 0-85, wing 8-25, tail 6. tarsus 1-5. 



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