FALCO RUPICOLOIDES.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate XCII. (Female.) 



F. subrufus, lineis fasciisque brunneis variegatus, fasciis postice acuminatis; gula guttereque rufo-albis ; 

 Cauda, alterne albo brunneoque fasciata; oculis brunneis; pedibus virldi-flavis ; unguibus corneis ; 

 maxilla livido-viride ; mandibula versus basin flava. 



LoNGiTUDO ^ rostri apice ad basin caudse 1 unc. ; caudoe 7 unc. 



Falco Rdpicoloides, Snnth, South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. p. 238, 1830. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head and neck, the interscapulars, 

 the back, the breast, and the belly, have a ground tint intermediate be- 

 tween light-tile red and bufF-orange, the shade deepest on the upper 

 parts of the head, the back and sides of the neck, the back and the 

 belly. In these several regions, however, the ground colour is broken 

 by umber-brown variegations, in the form of narrow longitudinal stripes 

 on the head, the back and sides of the neck, the breast, and the flanks ; 

 and of transverse bars on the back, the belly, the shoulders, the scapulars, 

 and the quill coverts. On the back, shoulders, and belly, the bars amount 

 to two or three on each feather, and many of them posteriorly exhibit a 

 single fine prolongation following the course of the vane. The longitudinal 

 stripes, where they occur, are one along the middle of each feather. The 

 primary and secondary quill feathers are deep umber-brown, the inner vanes 

 barred with reddish orange, which fade into white towards their inner 

 edge. Upper tail coverts umber-brown, barred with white ; under tail- 

 coverts nearly white. Tail barred, alternately rusty white and umber-brown, 

 with a greyish gloss, the dark bars widest, the light-coloured bars of the 

 two centre feathers are strongly tinted with rufous ; the tips of all the tail 

 feathers are white. The sides of the head behind the eyes, the chin, the 



