30 FALCONID A. 
top of the head and nape of the neck whitish, streaked 
with dark brown, the feathers elongated. The whole 
of the upper surface of the body and wings dark brown ; 
the ends of the wing-primaries black; the upper surface 
of the feathers of the tail waved with two shades of 
brown; the chin and throat white ; across the upper part 
of the breast a few feathers tinged with light brown, 
forming a band. The under surface of the body, the 
thighs, and under tail-coverts, white; under surface of 
the wing white at the axilla, brown on the outer edge ; 
under surface of the wing-primaries dark brown, the shafts 
white; under surface of the tail-feathers barred with grey- 
ish brown on a white ground: the legs and toes blue; the 
tarsi reticulated ; the toes partly reticulated, but with a 
few broad scales near the end; under surface of the toes 
covered with short, sharp spines, admirably adapted for 
holding a smooth and slippery prey: claws long, all of 
nearly uniform length, crooked, forming one-third of a 
circle, sharp. and solid,—that is, not grooved underneath ; 
their colour black. 
The vignette below represents a Hawk’s hood 
