14 FALCONING. 



.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 



