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buff-colour ; chin nearly white ; of the quills the third is the 

 longest, the first two inches and a half shorter ; the first six quills 

 white half w ay from the base, and the ends reach to two-thirds of 

 the length on the tail, which is ten inches long, nearly even ; from 

 the base to two-thirds buff, crossed with six or seven oblique brown 

 and pale mottled bars, the rest brown ; legs pale ash-colour ; claws 

 black, and hooked. 



Inhabits Senegal. — Mr. H. Brogden. 



127.— SENEGAL FALCON. 



LENGTH 11 inches; bill pale yellow, stout, the upper man- 

 dible ftirnished with a notch, and slightly curved at the point ; sides 

 of the head, chin, and throat cinereous white ; through the eye a 

 broad black streak, ending in a point half an inch behind ; top of 

 the head to the nape rufous brown, streaked with black ; the und«r 

 parts white, passing in a ring round the neck, below the nape ; all 

 of which, as far as the belly, are marked with slender streaks of 

 black, broader beneath ; lower belly, thighs, and vent plain ; colour 

 of the plumage, on the upper parts of the body, plain brown, 

 sti'eaked down the shafts with black; lesser wing coverts marked 

 with a curve of black near the end, the others with pale margins ; 

 quills dark brown, edged outwardly with pale rufous; tail six 

 inches long, cuneifonn, the outer feathers an inch and a half 

 shorter than the middle, colour as the quills ; legs ash-colour. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the same collection as the two last. 



