FALCON. 



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white, breast, belly, and thighs pale rufous, streaked down the 

 shafts ynth dusky; tail alternately barred black and pale dove-colour, 

 five or six bai's of each, one nearest tlie end much broader ; the 

 quills reach fully to the end of the tail ; legs red ; claws moderately 

 hooked, pale. 



In the collection of Mr. Comyns. In many things it agrees with 

 the Tawny-headed, but the legs are shorter, and the claws less 

 sharp ; in both the wings are as long as the tail. Said to have been 

 brought from Senegal. It is probably a variety of the last described. 



130.— RED-NOSED FALCON. 



LENGTH 14 inches; bill stout, hooked, at the end a notch, 

 the tip much bent; cere rather elevated, red; base of both man- 

 dibles pale red ; general colour of the plumage above pale lead- 

 colour, beneath tiom the breast white, crossed with numerous fine 

 blackish lines ; down the middle of the chin a streak, composed of 

 blackish feathers ; under wing coverts white, the outer edge of the 

 wings the same, for about half way ; second quills barred with dark 

 and white, the greater much the same, barred within ; the third quill 

 the longest, the outer one being t^vo inches and a half shorter ; tail 

 five inches long, first white at the base, then black, and at an inch 

 and half from the end a bar of white ; the quills reach more than 

 half way on the tail ; legs very robust, scaly, dull yellow ; claws 

 black and hooked. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



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