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shape, crossed with three paler bars on the outer webs, and on tlie 

 inner as many of Avhite placed opposite ; the pale bars occupyitig 

 less space than the ground colour; the wings reach more than 

 three-fourths on the tail ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Cayenne. One of these, brought from the Island of 

 Trinidad, by Lord Seaforth, measured in length loin, and differed 

 in a few particulars. The breast was dull rufous, deeper on the sides ; 

 belly, thighs, and vent barred brown and white, with narrow rufous 

 ones between the others; or it may be rather said, that the brown is 

 marginetl above with rufous ; under tail coverts white ; the tail much 

 rounded at the end, the outer feather being three quarters of an inch 

 shorter than the two middle ones ; the first quill an inch and a half 

 shorter than the second, and the third the longest; when the wing- 

 is closed, it reaches to more than two-thirds on the tail. 



We have met with a drawing of one, in which the forehead was 

 whitish ; the thigh feathers black ; legs black ; in other points 

 agreeing with tlie former description.. 



195.— RUFOUS-HEADED FALCON. 



Falco meridionalis, Ind.Orn.i. 36. Daud.'u. 112. Shaw's Zool.vu. 178. 

 Rufous-headed Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 3-3. 



LENGTH 19 inches. Bill black brown; cere yellow; head 

 and neck rufous, dashed with brown ; throat, and behind the eyes, 

 marked with narrow black stripes; back and rump brown; chin 

 pale rufous yellow; under parts of the body dirty white, Avith 

 numerous bars of ash-colour; sides of the tail black and white 



