BEE-HAWK. Q(J1 



the first five are deeply sinuate on the inner web, and 

 beyond the sinus have their edges nearly parallel until 

 near the rounded tips ; the secondary quills are thirteen, 

 very long, broad, and broadly rounded, with a minute 

 acumen. The tail is nearly as long as the body, neck 

 and bill together, straight, even, but with the lateral 

 feather on each side a little shorter. 



The bill is black, as is the naked cere. The irides 

 are said to be yellow, as are the tarsi and toes ; the 

 claws black. The head to behind the eyes, the auricu- 

 lars, and the short feathers margining the lower man- 

 dible, are light brownish-grey, not bluish-grey, as many 

 authors state ; that colour gradually passes on the hind 

 head into deep umber brown, which is the general co- 

 lour of the upper parts, the whole, however, shaded with 

 grey, and the shaft of each feather with a patch on the 

 centre being blackish-brown. All the feathers are white 

 at the base, and those of the hind neck are white for 

 two-thirds of their length. The larger wing-coverts 

 and scapulars are brownish-grey in the middle ; the 

 secondary quills are grey in the middle, faintly barred 

 with brown, brownish-black towards the end, the mar- 

 gins of the tips pale brown. The alular feathers and 

 primary quills are similar, their grey part sprinkled 

 with brown dots, and a large portion of their inner 

 webs white. The tail feathers are umber brown tinged 

 with grey ; the base for a very small extent is white, 

 that colour succeeded by a bar of deep umber ; then 

 within half an inch is another bar of the same colour, 

 partially concealed by tlie tail-coverts ; the next brown 

 bar, which is all exposed, is a little more than half an 

 inch distant ; and at an interval of six inches, having 



