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(which has, I may mention, in some lights a greenish tinge) is found to 

 be confined to a broad terminal band ; the basal portions of the feathers 

 are a somewhat pale drab-brown ; the smallest scapulars are the richest 

 and warmest in colouring, the longest the dullest ; the rump and upper 

 tail-coverts much about the same tint as the longer scapulars. The tail a 

 rather pale drab-brown, with a subterminal brownish black baud, and three 

 other moderately dark brown bands, the third almost entirely hidden by 

 the upper tail-coverts ; the quills have the outer webs brown, banded 

 obscurely but broadly with darker brown, the inner web a rather dark 

 drab-brown at the tips and white at the bases, with several broad black or 

 blackish-brown transverse bands ; the primaries, especially the earlier ones, 

 are considerably darker on the outer webs, and have a greyish tinge on 

 the interspaces of these webs ; the tertiaries are much paler brown ; the 

 lesser coverts along the ulna and at the carpal joint are almost black ; the 

 greater coverts are about the same colour as the ground of the tail ; the 

 median coverts somewhat darker ; all the quills are white-tipped, the 

 secondaries most conspicuously so, and a few of the median coverts are 

 also tipped in the same way. There is more or less of a purple gloss over 

 the whole upper surface of the wings and tail. 



The lores and an inconspicuous band under the eye and the base of the 

 ear-coverts grey, the feathers darker-shafted ; the rest of the ear-coverts and 

 the lateral portions of the throat fulvous, the feathers more or less dark- 

 shafted ; chin and throat pure white, or with the faintest yellowish tinge, 

 with a narrow but very conspicuous black central stripe ; upper breast 

 mingled white and a pale somewhat brownish rufous ; lower breast, sides, 

 flanks, axillaries and abdomen white, with broad regular transverse brownish- 

 rufous bands, darkest on the sides and flanks ; vent and lower tail-coverts 

 white, with a dingy yellowish tinge, with here and there a trace of a trans- 

 verse rufous band ; the wing-lining is yellowish white, with rufous bars 

 and mottlings ; the lower surfaces of the quills are, at the tips, pale french 

 grey, with black transverse bands ; higher up they are white, with pale 

 greyish-brown bands ; the lower surface of the tail greyish white, the dark 

 bands showing through more conspicuously on the outer webs and less so 

 on the inner webs except of the four central tail-feathers ; all the tail- 

 feathers are tipped with drab-brown, paling at the extreme tip almost to 

 white; this tipping is about a quarter of an inch wide on the central, and 

 three quarters of an inch on the exterior tail-feathers. (Hume.) 



Legs and feet white slightly tinged with blue; irides bright yellow; 

 claws, upper and tip of lower mandible and cere blackish ; the base of the 

 lower mandible paler. (Davison.) 



Length 18*5 inches, tail 9'6, wing 13*1, tarsus T6, bill from gape 1 35. 

 (Davison.) 



The Sumatran Kite-Falcon was obtained by both Mr. Davison and 



