54 FALCONING. 



brownish rufous ; lower breast, sides, flanks, auxiliaries and abdomen white with 

 broad regular transverse brownish rufous bands ; vent and lower tail coverts 

 white or buffy with traces of rufous barring ; wing lining yellowish white with 

 rufous bars and mottlings ; quills brown on the outer webs, banded obscurely 

 with darker brown, their inner webs with a dark drab brown at the tips and white 

 basally, with several broad, blackish brown transverse bands and tipped white ; 

 also the secondaries and some of the median coverts ; lower surface of quills 

 French grey at the tips ; tail pale drab with a subterminal band, which is black, 

 and 3 others ; under surface of tail greyish white, the dark bands showing 

 through on the outer webs. 



Length. 18-5 ; wing 13*12 ; tail 9-62; tarsus r6 ; bill from gape 1-35 ; legs 

 and feet white tinged with blue. Irides bright yellow ; cere and upper man- 

 dible blackish ; base of lower mandible paler. 



The female is very similar to the male except that the head, nape and sides 

 of the neck are more rufescent and have less conspicuous dark brown central 

 stripes, the mantle is a much less dark brown, there is less of the purple gloss 

 and the marginal fringes of the feathers are broader and more rufous ; there 

 is no grey about the cheeks, which are pale fulvous fawn ; the chin and throat 

 too are fulvous white and the throat stripe is brown, instead of black, as in the 

 male ; the coverts are also paler and more rufescent. 



Length. 22*0 inches; wing 1375 ; tail 10*25 ; tarsus 17; bill from gape 

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Mr. Sharpe Cat. Ace., describes a young female from Sumatra, but Messrs. 

 Hume and Gurney, two profound Ornithologists, suggest that it was not 

 correctly sexed, and that the specimen is a young male, and not female. The 

 following is Mr. Sharpe's description. 



Young female. Head and hind-neck creamy buff, washed with tawny 

 rufous, the feathers on hinder part of crown dark brown in the centre ; 

 occipital crest very long, black, with cream-coloured tip ; back brown with 

 fulvous edgings, the scapulars and secondaries further margined with white ; 

 quills ashy brown, barred with darker brown, the tail similarly coloured, 

 narrowly tipped with white ; the feathers washed externally with rufous near 

 the base ; the bars on the tail four in number, one being concealed ; the under- 

 surface of both wings and tail paler and more ashy white ; entire sides of 

 face, throat and under-parts creamy buff washed with pale tawny rufous ; the 

 breast and sides of the body broadly barred with the latter colour ; under-wing 

 coverts creamy buff ; bill black ; pale at base beneath ; feet yellowish white ; 

 iris yellow. 



Length. 2v$ inches; culmen 1-4 ; wing 1275 ; tail 9-6; tarsus r6. 

 Hab. Sumatra, Tennaserim, B. Burmah. 



