Mr Evans's Note on a Siwcimen of the Red-footed Falcon. 1G9 



tail coverts, bluish-grey, with a few of the barred buff- 

 coloured feathers of immaturity still showing themselves 

 here and there : secondaries consisting entirely of worn 

 feathers of first plumage, pale brown, with darker bars : 

 primaries, and most of their coverts, well worn, and appar- 

 ently not moulted, dull bluish-black, the primaries with 

 large whitish spots on inner webs : rump, clothed mainly 

 with the pale ferruginous, dark-barred feathers of imma- 

 turity, intermixed with which are a few of the new slate- 

 coloured feathers : tail feathers, twelve in number, all, except 

 second outer on right, and second and third on left, dark 

 lead-colour, with still darker broad bar near the apex, 

 and mostly quite new and perfect ; the second on right, and 

 second and third on left, are those of immaturity, much worn, 

 dull white, suffused with ferruginous, and crossed with dark 

 leaden bars : scarcely any of the primaries or rectrices show 

 the slightest trace of the pale terminal margins seen in the 

 newly acquired first plumage : breast, belly, and thighs, rich 

 ferruginous or bay, mixed with pale bluish-grey : under tail 

 coverts, paler bay : little if any trace of the first plumage 

 exists on the under parts. 



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