RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



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dark brown ; under surface of the wing-primaries blackish 

 grey, with numerous transverse bars of bluish grey ; under 

 surface of the tail-feathers bluish gi'ey, with nine or ten 

 transverse bars of bluish black, the bars increasing a little in 

 breadth as they approach the tip. 



Young females have the top of the head reddish brown 

 with dusky streaks ; the eyes encircled with black, with a 

 small black pointed moustache descending from the anterior 

 part of the eye ; ear coverts white : upper surface of the 

 body dark brown, the feathers ending with reddish brown ; 

 wing-primaries dusky black, the inner edges and tips buiFy 

 white ; the tail-feathers dark brown, with numerous trans- 

 verse bars of reddish brown ; throat white : sides of the neck, 

 the breast, and all the under surface of the body, pale reddish 

 white, with brown longitudinal streaks and patches on the 

 breast ; the thighs and their long feathers uniform pale fer- 

 ruginous ; beak, cere, iridcs, &c. as in the adult female. 





