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with a spot of brown at tip; interscapulars and back dirty 
brown ; upper tail coverts brown, with their tips pale tawny; 
throat, sides of neck, and anterior part of breast, blackish 
brown ; flanks, belly, thighs, and vent, reddish brown, inclined 
to dirty ferruginous ; shoulders variegated brown and pale 
tawny ; inside of wings dark tawny, spotted with brown. Pri- 
mary and secondary wing coverts brown, with tawny tips; 
primary quill feathers dark brown, the inner vanes towards 
quills light tawny, variegated by longitudinal waved dusky 
lines ; secondaries similarly coloured. Tail nearly even, dark 
brown, with the three outermost feathers of each side distinctly 
marked by transverse interrupted tawny bands; centre ones 
with indistinct light coloured bands on inner vanes ; tips of all 
the feathers tawny. Legs and toes greenish yellow; claws 
black. Length about eighteen inches. 
Young.—Plumage an uniform dark brown, very slightly 
variegated by some streaks of bright tawny about the chin, 
front, and anterior edges of shoulders. The brown of the up- 
per parts is dark and clear ; that of the lower reddish brown or 
ferruginous. Tail feathers nearly uniform brown, with tawny 
tips, and some similarly coloured spots towards quills. Bill 
blackish blue, the lower mandible yellow at base. Legs and 
toes dirty yellow. 
Inhabits South Africa. 
Sus-Fam. FALCONINA. 
Bill curved from the base, with one or more stron g teeth up- 
on the edge of the upper mandible ; wings as long or longer 
than the tail, first feather long, second longest. 
Genus Fatco. Bechst. 
Bill strong, conical, curved from the base with a strong tooth 
on edge of upper mandible, the lower notched near point; nostrils 
round, situated near anterior edge of cere; tarsi short, more or 
less robust, their wpper third feathered, the rest reticulated. 
Tail moderately long, slightly graduated, broad, and rounded ; 
hinder toe strong; claws falciform ; cere nearly naked. 
Falco peregrinus, Lin. Head and upper part of neck bluish 
black, rest of upper parts ashy blue, the feathers crossed by 
irregular blackish bands ; quill feathers blackish, with a hoary 
tint on the outer vanes, inner vanes with transverse tawny or 
white stripes; edges of shoulders white ; tail ashy with nu- 
merous transverse black bands, broadest towards the tips which 
are dull white. Beneath each eye a broad black streak ; 
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