SAKEIi FALCON. 31 
red on the back and wings, but paler on the quills of the tail and 
the secondaries. The feathers on the crown of the head have a rather 
wide edge of reddish brown, approaching to white. The moustache 
but slightly visible. Chin, throat, and lesser wing coverts are of a 
dirty uniform white, and this prevails in the under parts of the body, 
the markings there being paler and less extended; these markings in 
the form of drops, and rather small upon the chest, the belly, and 
the feathers of the legs, are however much larger upon the sides. 
Those observable upon the lesser wing coverts are longitudinal, but 
the white spots of the great coverts are transverse, and arranged in 
bands. The claws as in the young bird, are of a uniform black, and 
the beak is of a bluish horn colour, passing into black towards the 
tip, and into yellowish towards the base of the beak. The feet, on 
the contrary, the cere, and the eyelids approach more strongly to 
yellowish than in the young bird." 
The figures of the egg of this bird are from my own collection. 
The lighter coloured one is from the Volga, and was sent to me with 
three others from the same nest and the bird. The other is from 
South Eussia, and was taken by Herr Glitzch. The above are selected 
from about twenty specimens. 
