14 FALCONINE. 
eye continued round the back of the head, whitish or fulvous- 
white ; feathers dark shafted ; whole crown of the head brown, a 
few feathers in centre towards the front very broadly margined, 
the rest very narrowly margined, with fulvous or buffy-white ; 
the nape below the white stripe darkish-brown in the centre, 
the feathers margined with buffy-white, and with a patch of 
white on either side the feathers of which have dark spots 
towards the tip; the whole of the rest of the back of the neck, 
upper back, scapulars, and wing-coverts a nearly uniform brown 
with a faint tinge of slaty, and all the feathers tipped and 
margined with fulvous-white, very narrowly towards the head, 
and more broadly towards the points of the scapulars; the hue 
of the back of the neck is slightly darker; the quills are much 
the same color, but somewhat more bluish; all the quills have 
a number of incomplete bars, or oval spots of rufous-white on 
the inner web; the last five primaries, the secondaries and the 
tertiaries have each two or three tiny rufous-white spots on the 
outer webs also; and the greater-coverts of the secondaries 
and tertiaries have similar small inconspicuous spots on both 
webs ; and all the secondaries and tertiaries, and the last few 
primaries, are narrowly tipped with buffy-white; the rump 
and lower back are a somewhat paler and more sandy-brown, 
margined with pale rufous; the upper tail-coverts are a still 
more sandy-brown, tipped and margined with dingy-white, and 
with one or more incomplete bars of fulvous-white ; the tail- 
feathers are brown, paler and sandier on the centre feathers, 
and darker, and more slaty on the outer feathers, all 
narrowly tipped with dirty-white, and all with six or seven one- 
quarter-inch broad transverse bars on both webs, fulvous white 
on the centre feathers, and rufous-white on the exterior feathers ; 
the bars are scarcely visible on the outer web of the exterior 
feather; chin, and upper part of throat, pure white; a dark- 
brown cheek-stripe from under the eye, margined with pale 
rufous ; ear-coverts mingled pale brown and rufous-white. 
Hinder portion of the cheeks white, some of the feathers 
tinged pale-rufous; an ill-defined brown stripe (the feathers 
slightly tipped fulvous-white) running backwards from the 
posterior angle of the eye, and dividing the white of the hind- 
cheeks from the white of the sides of the nape; the lower 
throat and upper portion of breast fulvous-white, each feather 
dark shafted, and with a narrow somewhat pear-shaped streak 
of dark brown towards the tip; the rest of the breast, sides 
and upper abdomen fulvous-white, each feather with a well 
marked central stripe of brown, narrowest in front, broadest to- 
wards the sides. 
Lower abdomen and vent white, slightly tinged with fulvous, 
a few of the feathers dark shafted; lower tail-coverts (which 
do not reach within two inches of the end of the tail) white, 
with two or three transverse, somewhat wavy bars, of pale 
