36 SAKER FALCON. 



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 figure of this egg is from the drawing of a 

 specimen in the British Museum. 



