52 FALCONID A. 
brown longitudinal streaks; the thighs and their long 
feathers plain rufous; under wing-coverts rufous, with 
transverse bars of dark brown; under surface of the wing- 
primaries blackish grey, with numerous transverse bars of 
bluish grey : under surface of the tail-feathers bluish grey, 
with nine or ten transverse bars of bluish black, the bars 
increasing a little in breadth as they approach the tip. 
Young females have the top of the head reddish brown 
with dusky streaks; the eyes encircled with black, with a 
small black pointed moustache descending from the an- 
terior part of the eye; ear coverts white: upper surface 
of the body dark brown, the feathers ending with reddish 
brown; wing-primaries dusky black, the inner edges and 
tips buffy white; the tail-feathers dark brown, with nu- 
merous transverse bars of reddish brown; throat white : 
sides of the neck, the breast, and all the under surface of 
the body, pale reddish white, with brown longitudinal 
streaks and patches on the breast; the thighs and their 
long feathers uniform pale ferruginous ; beak, cere, irides, 
&e. as in the adult female. 
