66 JER-FALCON. 
scattered spots of dusky black on the upper part of the body 
and the head streaked with the same; the wings and tail, 
black, the latter with a band of white at the end, and a 
little white at the base; the quills slightly tipped with white; 
the secondary quills and under coverts elegantly barred with 
black and white. The wings were very short in proportion 
to the size of the bird, for if the primary quills had been 
closed, they would vertainly not have reached near the end of 
the tail.’ 
