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very wide. Ears large, neal by a rut 
 thick-set feathers. Tarsi very long, slender, sn 
a 
(fig. 189.) i * f ef 
C. pygargus. Selby, pl. 10. E. rutilans. Pl. Col. 25. 
Montagui. Vieil. G. 13. E. ‘ aa 
Susram. FALCONINE. Falcons. a 
Bill short, suddenly curved from the base. The upp 
mandible armed near the tip with a sharp ang ate 
tooth, often double, beyond which is a slight festoon 
under mandible deeply toothed at the end. Nostr ; 
circular; cere short. Feet moderate; tarsi slender 
naked ; ‘middle toe very long, lateral either equal 0 
unequal, hinder very short. Wings lengthened, pointe 
the second quill longest, and, with the first, deepl 
notched internally, near their tips. Tail rounded. 
Fatco, Auct. True Falcons. Both mandibles of th 
bill with a single acute tooth near the tip. Nostri 
round, naked. Wings moderate or long, pointed 
the first quill rather shorter than the second, which, 
with the third, are the longest. Tarsi slender, naked, — 
with two series of anterior scales fitting into each 
other ; the rest reticulate. Middle toe very long, 
equal to the tarsus ; magia toes rather unequal 
AL 
Uy, 
hinder very short. ‘The anterior claws of almos ; | 
equal size. Soles with prominent pads. (fig. 190.) 
F, lanarius. Tem. Man. i. 20. unicolor. W. Af. i. ple : 
peregrinus. P]. Enl. 421.  rufescens. W. Af. i. 1088 
subbuteo. Pl. Enl. 432.  ruficollis. W. Af. i. pl. 2 
ZEsalon. N. Z. pl. 25. rupicolus. O. d’ Af. pl. 36. 
tinnunculus. Pl. Enl. 401. tibialis. Pl. Col. pl. 
tinnunculoides. T. M.i.31. punctatus. Ib. 45. 
rufipes. Pl. Enl. 431. frontalis. O. d’Af. pl. 2 
sparverius. N. Z. pl. 24. | macrodactylus. Ois. aA A 3 
columbarius. W. pl.15. 3. pl. 30. | 
femoralis. Pl. Col. 345. and those in Part g 
