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pale umber brown, which prevails over all the 

 upper parts. Quills, with an inch and a half at 

 the tip, very deep umber brown ; towards the 

 base they become nearly white on the insides, 

 and are crossed with irregular dark bars or 

 blotches ; the third quill is longest, the next nearly 

 equal, and the sinuation of the inner webs of the 

 four first hardly so deep as in Buteo. Secon- 

 daries, also with the tips dark umber brown, which 

 forms a bar across the wing, a peculiarity of mark- 

 ing also seen in the other known species ofPernis. 

 The tail is rather long, of a paler tint than the . 

 back ; there is one broad dark band at the tip, a 

 second more than half way up, and a third cross- 

 ing at the tips of the upper coverts ; the inter- 

 vening space is clouded with narrow indistinctly 

 clouded bars. The throat is pure white, the 

 shafts of the feathers of the chin only -dark ; rest 

 of the under parts pure white, having the tips of 

 the feathers marked with a triangular bar of umber 

 brown, darkest along the shafts ; insides of the 

 thighs pure white; tarsi feathered nearly half 

 way down. 



An adult male killed at Twizell in September, 

 1835, is in length twenty-one inches and a half. 

 Bill bluish black ; cere lemon yellow ; tarsi and 

 feet of a deeper tint of the same colour ; plumage 

 entirely very deep clove brown; scaly feathers 

 of the lore tinted with grey, and with purplish 



