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of brownish black and pale brown ; nape, round the neck, 

 and the upper part of the back marked with longitudinal 

 streaks of brownish black on a surface of light brown ; 

 feathers of the back, wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, 

 a speckled mixture of black and dark brown on pale brown ; 

 wing-primaries light chesnut brown, barred and speckled 

 with darker brown ; the second quill-feather the longest, and 

 the wing when closed reaching a little beyond the end of the 

 tail ; tipper surface of tail-feathers the same colour ; 

 feathers of the breast and belly a mixture of greyish white 

 and pale brown, with longitudinal streaks of umber brown ; 

 thighs and under tail-coverts uniform pale brown ; under 

 surface of tail-feathers greyish white, with narrow trans- 

 verse bars of dusky brown ; legs and toes covered with 

 short uniform pale brown feathers; the extreme ends of 

 the anterior toes bare ; claws rather long, curved, very 

 sharp and black. 



The whole length is from fourteen to fifteen inches. 



The vignette represents the orifice of the ear in this spe- 

 cies, from the work of Mr. Macgillivray on the Rapacious 

 Birds of Great Britain. 



