194 FALCON. 



dusky ; tail pale dull rufous or tawny, plain, except near the tip, 

 where each feather is marked with an oval dusky spot ; legs stout, 

 yellow ; claws black. 



Tliis is called Muskooroo, and said to be a male. — General 

 Hardwicke. 



119.— SHARP-TAILED FALCON. 



LENGTH 20 inches ; bill dark ; cere yellowish ; general colour 

 of the plumage brown above ; feathers of the crown and neck 

 behind, whitish or buff on the margins; coverts mostly brown, 

 barred within with white, but the lesser coverts are deeper brown, 

 with fine tawny, or ferruginous margins ; quills dusky for three 

 inches or more from the end, then pale tawny, with five or six narrow, 

 curved, brown bars, but towards the base pale ; outer quill two 

 inches shorter than the next; at first sight the lesser wing coverts 

 appear ferruginous and brown mixed, the rest of wing brown, a 

 little mixed with white, tlie remaining part brown ; tail even, seven 

 inches long, brown and cinereous in bars, eight or nine of each, but 

 in the half next the base, the bars are rust and brown, instead of 

 cinereous; ends of all the feathers rather pointed, and the tips 

 fringed with white ; under parts of the body in general buff-white, 

 with cordated spots, mostly two on each feather, one above the other; 

 thighs buff-white, crossed with narrow, pale, dusky rufous bars; 

 legs long, yellow ; claws black, hooked ; vent white. • 



Native place uncertain. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



