34 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
feathers white, barred with reddish orange; breast, 
belly and under tail-coverts white, with various lon- 
gitudinal streaks of reddish orange; under wing- 
coverts barred with reddish brown; under surface of 
tail-feathers dull white, barred with dusky grey; leg 
and toes slender and yellow; claws black. 
The adult female measures nineteen inches, the 
wing fifteen. The beak black; the cere dull yellow ; 
irides hazel; crown of the head and nape reddish 
brown, with darker brown spots; above and below 
the eye a streak of dull white; ear-coverts dark 
brown; back and wings dark umber-brown; rump 
and upper tail-coverts mixed with white and orange- 
brown; upper surface of the central tail-feathers 
uniform dark brown; side tail-feathers barred with 
two shades of brown; breast, belly and all the under 
surface of the body light reddish brown, with longi- 
tudinal marks of a darker colour; legs and toes 
yellow; claws black. These descriptions are princi- 
pally taken from Yarrell. 
Hewitson says the eggs are white, tinted with 
light blue, but never spotted like those of the last 
species. 
With Montagu’s Harrier ends the list of the 
British Falconide. 
