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works on Falconry, especially Schlegel’s Zraité de Fauconnerie, and 
Salvin and Broderick’s Falconry in the British Isles. 
The following description of the Winton specimen may serve, 
with the somewhat rough figure—which is drawn from living 
examples to about one-fourth the natural size—to convey some 
kind of idea of the general aspect of the bird when alive. The 
skin itself will be deposited in the Museum at Carlisle. 
Total length about twenty inches ; wing fifteen-and a-half inches 
from carpal joint to the end of the longest primary ; eleven-and-a- 
half to the end of the longest secondary ; end of tail extending 
about two inches beyond the tips of the wings. 
The general dorsal aspect is dark hair-brown, glossed with 
plum-colour, quite subordinately spotted and edged with cream- 
colour. 
The general ventral aspect is striped with cream-colour and dark 
hair-brown in about equal proportions. 
The bill is now horn-colour, deeping outwards to very dark 
sage-green. The cere, orbits, gape, and feet, shew traces of dirty 
greenish yellow, which may, however, be due simply to drying. 
The chin is cream-colour without stripes; gorget striped with 
feathers cream-coloured on one half and hair-brown edged with 
cream-colour on the other. The cream-colour encroaches on the 
darker tint most about the widest part of each feather, so that the 
cream-coloured spots cut the dark shade somewhat into the shape 
of a fiddle; and the transverse diameter of the spots becomes 
relatively larger as they extend downwards, so that on the flank 
feathers they appear as ellipsoidal markings extending inwards as 
far as the shaft of the feather. The flank feathers thus appear to 
be marked with more or less distinctly transverse bars. 
The tarsi are feathered rather more than half-way down; and 
the leg-plumes, which are long enough to extend to the sole of the 
powerful foot, are marked in much the same way as the flanks; 
that is to say, they exhibit traces of transverse bars as well as of 
longitudinal stripes. The under tail-coverts are cream-colour with 
dark centre-lines, which widen out somewhat near the extremity of 
each feather. 
