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FALCONID.E. 



brown longitudinal streaks ; the thighs and their long 

 feathers plain rufous ; under wing-coverts rufous, with 

 transverse bars of dark brown ; under surface of the wing- 

 primaries blackish grey, with numerous transverse bars of 

 bluish grey : under surface of the tail-feathers bluish grey, 

 with nine or ten transverse bars of bluish black, the bars 

 increasing a little in breadth as they approach the tip. 



Young females have the top of the head reddish brown 

 with dusky streaks ; the eyes encircled with black, with a 

 small black pointed moustache descending from the an- 

 terior part of the eye ; ear coverts white : upper surface 

 of the body dark brown, the feathers ending with reddish 

 brown ; wing-primaries dusky black, the inner edges and 

 tips buffy white ; the tail-feathers dark brown, with nu- 

 merous transverse bars of reddish brown ; throat white : 

 sides of the neck, the breast, and all the under surface of 

 the body, pale reddish white, with brown longitudinal 

 streaks and patches on the breast ; the thighs and their 

 long feathers uniform pale ferruginous ; beak, cere, irides, 

 &c. as in the adult female. 



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