92 FALCON. 



on the sides, inclining most to the last at the hindhead ; cheeks pale 

 ash-colour ; orbits and cliin whitish ; neck ash-colour, inclinin;;- to 

 brown beliind, and before to ferruginous ; back cinereous brovvn ; 

 rump white ; breast ferruginous, more or less mixed with white ; 

 belly and thighs white, marked with ferruginous, each feather 

 having two or three heart-shaped spots ; tail broA\'n aboAC, and pale 

 beneath, with dusky bars ; legs yellow. 



One of these was killed in Carolina, by M. C. Bosc. 



35.— ASH-COLOURED FALCON. 



Ash-coloured Falcon, Oni. Diet. Sf Sup, Lin. Trans, ix. ISS. Sr. Zool. ed. 1812. i. 

 p. 243. Tem.3Ian.€d.\\. p. 76. 



WEIGHT 91 ounces; length 18 in. breadth 3ft. 8Mn. tail 9iin. 

 bill black; cere greenish ; eyelids and irides bright yellow ; crown, 

 cheeks, throat, mider part of the neck, and upper part of the breast 

 tlark ash-colour ; neck above, back, and scapulars cinereous brown ; 

 lesser wing coverts much the same, greater dusky black ; quills 

 nearly black, the first shortest, the third longest; second quills 

 cinereous brown, with three dusky bars across them, half an inch 

 broad, two of which are hid by the coverts ; body beneath white, 

 with a broad bright bay sti'eak down the shaft of each feather ; tail 

 somewhat cuneiform, the two middle feathers dark bro^vn, the others 

 dark ash-colour, palest on the two or three outer feathers, the inner 

 webs approaching to white, and all, except the two middle ones, 

 with four equidistant bars on the inner webs, in the two outer bay, 

 in the rest more or less dusky ; legs orange-colour, long and slender; 

 claws small, black. 



