58 ACCIPITRES. 



of a buffy hue ; nape and adjacent feathers on the sides o£ the 

 neck tinged with rusty ; sides of the neck, throat, and lower part 

 of the ear-coverts white, occasionally tinged with rufous buff ; 

 cheeks, sides of the face, and upper parts of the ear-coverts, 

 brownish black ; chest, buffy-white washed with light rufous, 

 becoming light rusty rufous on the remainder of the under- 

 surface, deepest on the flanks, where faint greyish cross-bars 

 appear ; breast striped with shaft-lines of greyish brown ;■ under 

 surface of the wings dull rufous, lighter on the margins of the 

 shoulders, and crossed with ashy brown bars ; the outer series of 

 the under wing-coverts and the axillaries ashy brown, tipped and 

 spotted on both webs with pale rufous ; primaries dark brown 

 washed with slaty blue on the outer web, and barred with a 

 series of transvercse oblong spots of pale rufous on the central 

 portion of the inner webs ; secondaries slaty blue, barred like the 

 primaries with light rufous ; upper wing-coverts and scapulars 

 slaty blue, with a few oblong spots of light rufous near the base 

 of the feathers — many of the wing-coverts, scapulars, and quills 

 showing indistinct dark cross-bars ; the tips of the secondaries 

 and some of the inner primaries margined with white ; the rump 

 and upper tail-coverts light slaty blue, with indistinct cross- 

 bars; shaft-stripes dark brown ; the two centre tail-feathers and 

 the outer webs of all the rest, slaty blue barred with blackish 

 brown, the inner webs barred alternately with blackish brown 

 and rufous, the last brown bar the deepest in tint and forming a 

 broad subterminal blackish band ; the tips of all the feathers 

 rufous ; lower part of the abdomen, and under tail-coverts, h\x&, 

 shaded with rufous and having obsolete bars of ashy brown ; 

 orbits, cere, and base of the under mandible yellowish ; bill bluish 

 lead-colour ; tip black ; feet yellow ; iris dark brown. Total 

 length 11-2 inches, wing 97, tail 5-5, tarsus 1-35, bill 075, 

 culmen 0'8. 



Semark. The first primary is frequently margined on the 

 outer web with a narrow wavy line of pale rufous ; the forehead 

 and lores, even in fully adult birds, and the nape and sides of 

 the neck, tinged with deep rusty rufous. 



Adult female. Similar in markings, but not, so brightly tinted 

 as the male, and considerably larger. Total length 13"8 inches, 

 wing 11 -4, tail 61, tarsus 1*45, bill 0-8, culmen 9. 



Young. " Above slaty blue, with broad rust-coloured margins 

 to the feathers, the secondaries plainly tipped with buffy white ; 

 the crown and upper tail-coverts rusty, being quite obscured by 

 the margins to the feathers ; forehead whitish ; fore part of cheeks, 

 region of the eye, and ear-coverts brownish black ; hinder 

 part of cheeks, sides of neck and throat creamy white ; chest 

 creamy buff, tinged with rufous, with several dark brown streaks 



