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FALCONID.E. 



feathers of the tibiae and tarsi sometimes white and some- 

 times a deep ferruginous, but invariably having numerous 

 bars of dark brown. The feet yellow, the claws dark horu- 

 colour. 



The whole length of the immature specimen figured was 

 twenty-four inches ; the beak black ; the cere and irides 

 yellow ; the top of the head, the cheeks, nape and upper 

 part of the neck, pale buff, each feather streaked or patched 

 in the centre with dark brown ; the back, Aving-coverts and 

 rump, clove-brown, some of the feathers edged with fawn- 

 colour ; primaries brownish-black ; upper tail-coverts bufi'y- 

 white, with an angular brown patch near the end of each 

 feather ; upper surface of the tail buflfy-white on the proximal 

 half, the distal half brown. The chin, throat and breast, 

 fawn-colour, tinged with ferruginous, streaked and patched 

 with brown ; the belly almost uniform clove-brown ; thighs 

 and tarsi covered with feathers of fawn-colour spotted with 

 brown : the toes yellow ; the claws black : under surface of 

 the primaries to the end of the broad part of the inner web, 

 white, from the emargination, brownish-black : under tail- 

 coverts uniform bufiy-white : proximal half of the under 

 surface of the tail white, the distal half greyish-brown. 



