44 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
and mottled with dark brown; primary quills barred 
brown and light yellowish brown; tail much the 
same; breast and belly dull white, streaked and 
barred with brown and yellowish brown; legs and 
toes feathered, white, with a few brown streaks; 
claws white at the base, dark at the tips. In the 
young bird of the year the facial disk is more 
mottled, and the feathers making the edging darker 
brown and white; head and nape streaked brown 
and dull yellowish white; the upper parts have not 
so much of a yellow tinge as in the adult; a white 
streak down the scapulars; a few white spots also 
on the greater wing-coverts; breast immediately 
under the disk, white with a few dark brown streaks; 
rest of the under parts white, streaked and barred 
with two shades of brown. They differ, however, in 
plumage at allages: Meyer says fawn-coloured birds 
are young females; reddish brown, young males; 
reddish grey, old females; and pale grey, adult 
males. 
The eggs of this species are white, like those of 
the three last, but are considerably larger. 
This is the last of the Raptorial order of birds 
which I shall be able to inelude in this list; and in 
concluding ny remarks on this, the first of the five 
great Orders, I may say that I am afraid that nearly 
the whole of the different species included in it are 
more or less rapidly becoming extinct, not in this 
