36 SAKER FALCON. 
tail and the secondaries. ‘The feathers on the crown of 
the head have a rather wide edge of reddish brown, 
approaching to white. The moustache but slightly 
visible. Chin, throat, and lesser wing coverts are of a 
dirty uniform white, and this prevails in the under 
parts of the body, the markings there being paler and 
less extended; these markings in the form of drops, 
and rather small upon the chest, the belly, and the 
feathers of the legs, are however much larger upon 
the sides. Those observable upon the lesser wing 
coverts are longitudinal, but the white spots of the 
great coverts are transverse, and arranged in bands. 
The claws as in the young bird, are of a uniform 
black, and the beak is of a bluish horn colour, passing 
into black towards the tip, and into yellowish towards 
the base of the beak. The feet, on the contrary, the 
cere, and the eyelids approach more strongly to yellowish 
than in the young bird.” 
The figure of this egg is from the drawing of a 
specimen in the British Museum. 
