270 FALCON. 



213— LONG-SHANKED FALCON. 



LENGTH 2ft. Bill black ; cere yellow, and somewhat bare 

 as far as the eye ; crown brown, the feathers margined with tawny ; 

 on the under jaw a ferruginous tawny patch, with a kind of wreath 

 of ash-colour, in the manner of the Ring-tail ; head, neck, body, 

 and scapulars, nearly plain browu ; wing coverts brown, spotted 

 with dove-colour; each feather, for the most part, marked with two 

 bars of the last, and tipped with the same, smaller on the lesser 

 coverts ; greater quills dove-colour, narrowly barred and tipped with 

 black ; the three outer ones plain brown ; the first three inches 

 shorter than the second, the third longest, the third and fourth 

 narrowing suddenly at the end half, on the outer webs ; unrler wing- 

 coverts, breast, belly, and thighs, ferruginous in bands and spots, 

 some of the size of peas ; thighs the same, but paler, and the .white 

 spots smaller, and more numerous; thighs and legs very long, the 

 former five inches, the latter 4| to the bend of the toes, colour 

 yellow ; claws black ; tail lOV inches long, crossed with alternate 

 bars of brown and dove-colour, t^velve in all, and the wings reach 

 to within two inches of the end. 



I found this in the collection of Mr. Bullock, but with no history 

 annexed ; it seems somewhat allied to tlie Long-legged Falcon, 

 No. 98. 



