Female. 
30 RAPACES. FALCO. Hawks. 
Throat and breast deep ash-grey. Belly, sides and thighs 
white, with reddish-brown streaks. 
Under wing-coverts barred with reddish-brown. Primary 
quills black ; secondaries ash-grey above, beneath paler, 
with three blackish bars, one of which is visible on the 
outer side of the wing. ‘Tail long, the two middle fea- 
thers grey, with a tinge of brown; the rest grey on the 
outer web, the inner having five reddish-brown bars. 
Legs slender and yellow. 
Toes short, the claws black. 
Since the above-mentioned year, I have killed two male 
specimens of this bird, both of which answered the foregoing 
description. 
Bill bluish-black. Cere wax-yellow. Inrides bright yellow. 
Crown of the head reddish-brown, with blackish-brown 
spots. Nape of the neck varied with orange-brown and 
white. Above and below the eye, is a streak of pale 
reddish-white. Ear-coverts deep umber-brown. Upper 
parts of the body umber-brown, the feathers margined 
with pale orange-brown. Lower part of the rump and 
the tail-coverts white, streaked with pale orange-brown. 
The whole of the under parts orange-brown, without 
spot or streak. ‘Tail, having the two middle feathers 
nearly of an uniform brown, the rest being barred with 
pale orange-brown and umber-brown, except the outer 
feathers, which are barred with orange-brown and white. 
The young males, previous to the first moult, are similar 
in plumage to the female bird. 
SECTION V.—HAWKS. 
DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS. 
Wings short, and when closed scarcely reaching to the 
middle of the tail. Furst quill-feather very short, the third 
