LITTLE BED-BILLED HAWK. 53 
An adult male in the Norwich Museum, has the head, nape, and 
back of a uniform greyish brown or dark slate-colour; chin, throat, 
and chest of a lighter grey; the belly, thighs, and under wing coverts 
white, with delicate, thin, transverse bars of grey. Primary quill feathers 
hair brown, barred above and below with a darker tint, the tips being 
conspicuously margined with white. Tail coverts (upper and lower) 
white; tail quill feathers white, with three or four broad dark hair 
brown transverse bars on each feather. 
The cere, with basal half of bill and legs, are of a bright red. 
In the young bird the under parts are more tinged with rufous, 
and the entire upper surface is rufous brown, except the tail coverts, 
which are white as in the adult. 
I have preferred Swainson's English designation of this bird to that 
of Latham, as we have already a "Red-footed Falcon" in the British 
lists. 
This bird is not figured in Gould's "Birds of Europe." 
My figure of this bird is from a beautiful drawing with which we 
have been favoured by Mr. Reeve, the Curator of the Norwich 
Museum. It is an adult male from South Africa, and about half the 
natural size. It forms one of the magnificent collection of Falconidce 
in the Norwich Museum. 
