FALCON. 195 



120— SAGITTAL FALCON. 



LENGTH 20 inches ; bill black, in the middle a projection ; 

 ceie dusky ; head, and neck above streaked dusky, and pale tawny 

 on the crown, the rest brown and buff; back, and wings brown, the 

 feathers margined or fringed pale ferruginous ; scapulars, and some 

 of the inner second quills brown, marked with oval spots of white 

 on the inner web, and others down the middle of the feathers ; greater 

 quills brown, marked with narrow bars of darker brown, most of 

 them streaked white on the inner webs; under wing coverts whitish, 

 with long sagittal brown streaks ; breast, belly, and thighs the same, 

 but the streaks of different sizes ; smaller and more numerous on the 

 thighs, the feathers of which hang a good way over the joint ; legs 

 strong, dusky blue ; claws black, strong, the hind one particularly 

 so ; under tail coverts white ; tail rounded, brownish ash-colour, 

 crossed ^vith fom* or five broad bars of dark brown, one near the end, 

 but the very tips of the feathers are white. 



Native place unknown. 



121.— JUSTIN FALCON. 



SIZE uncertain. Bill dusky blue; plumage above, dark choco- 

 late brown ; beneath, from the chin, and sides of the neck, rufous 

 white, passing in a patch under the eye ; tail nearly one-fourth of the 



