34 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 



feathers white, barred with reddish orange ; breast, 

 belly and under tail-coverts white, with various lon- 

 gitudinal streaks of reddish orange ; under wing- 

 coverts barred with reddish brown ; under surface of 

 tail-feathers dull white, barred with dusky grey ; leg 

 and toes slender and yellow ; claws black. 



The adult female measures nineteen inches, the 

 wing fifteen. The beak black ; the cere dull yellow ; 

 irides hazel; crown of the head and nape reddish 

 brown, with darker brown spots ; above and below 

 the eye a streak of dull white ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; back and wings dark umber-brown ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts mixed with white and orange- 

 brown; upper surface of the central tail-feathers 

 uniform dark brown ; side tail-feathers barred with 

 two shades of brown ; breast, belly and all the under 

 surface of the body light reddish brown, with longi- 

 tudinal marks of a darker colour; legs and toes 

 yellow ; claws black. These descriptions are princi- 

 pally taken from Yarrell. 



Hewitson says the eggs are white, tinted with 

 light blue, but never spotted like those of the last 

 species. 



With Montagu's Harrier ends the list of the 

 British Falconida3. 



