Mr. R. B. Sharpens Catalogue o/Accipitres. 337 



" Female adult^ shot near Cawnpore, 3rd February, 1869. 

 The top of the head is a light reddish brown, of a foxy tinge, 

 extending to the upper part of the back, but with the extreme 

 tips of most of the feathers of a darker tone, and not so red 

 as the body of the feather, giving the appearance of a small 

 clouded spot or drop at the tip of the feather ; the back and 

 all the wing- coverts are dull brown, rather inclined to rufous, 

 but with the edges of all the feathers a few shades paler ; 

 some of the new feathers on the upper part of the back have 

 moderately dark-brown centres edged with rather bright 

 reddish brown ; from the carpal joint along the ridge of the 

 wing to its junction with the body, the feathers are of a 

 light rufous similar to the head, but centred with darker 

 brown ; the primaries are dark blackish brown and free from 

 all bars, whether looked at from above or below ; the 

 secondaries are not so dark a brown, and are slightly glossed 

 with purple ; the tertials a still paler brown, and decidedly 

 glossed with purple ; the middle and lower part of the back 

 exhibit a mixture of light tawny and pale brown, the tawny 

 prevailing at the sides near the flanks, and the browH towards 

 the centre of the back. The upper tail-coverts are brown at 

 the centre and tawny at the sides, the middle coverts being 

 brown, and the lateral ones tawny, the colours passing rather 

 abruptly into each other; the lowest row of the upper tail- 

 coverts, however, is white. The tail is brown, becoming much 

 paler towards the tip ; the basal portion of the shafts is pure 

 white ; on the inner webs of some of the feathers there are 

 faint indications of bars, which are square to the shaft of the 

 feather ; these bars are only observable when the tail is closely 

 examined, and do not appear on the central feathers. There 

 is a narrow black supercilium ; the sides of the head are dull 

 rufous brown, the chin and throat the same, passing into 

 light reddish or foxy brown over the rest of the lower surface 

 with the exception of the terminal portion of the lower tail- 

 coverts, which are more whitish with a mixture of pale tawny; 

 the tarsus is not quite so dark and bright a rufous, but more 

 inclined to light sandy reddish brown ; the upper portion of 

 the wing-lining is very rufous, especially at the bend and 



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