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FALCONID^. 



whitish lanceolated spots, more or less distinct, ac- 

 cording to the age : all the under parts of the plu- 

 mage, from the superior point of the breast, are white 

 transversely striped with reddish-brown bands: the 

 young male has the throat and fore part of the neck 

 reddish-white : the chin fawn-colour with several red- 

 dish stripes, and the breast reddish and whitish. 



Sp. 7. As. bracbypterus. 



As. yusco-nigricans siibtus et torque nuchali albus nigro transverse 

 striatus, caudd cuneiforma Jasciis tribus albis ; superciliis albis. 



Dusky-brown Goshawk^ beneath and nuchal collar white trans- 

 versely striped with black, with the tail wedge-shaped with 

 three white bands ; the eyelids white. 



Falco bracbypterus, Temm. PL Col. 141, 116.j young. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length eighteen or twenty 

 inches : the old male has the top of the head, occiput, 

 back, scapulars, and wings dull black, slightly tinged 

 with brown : the tail black, wedged and marked above 

 with three narrow white bands, and the appearance 

 of a fourth at the base : those bands are broader and 

 more regularly formed on the under side, and all the 

 feathers are tipped with white : superciliae, cheeks, 

 and all the under parts of the body, as well as a 

 broad collar on the nape, white with very delicate 

 black stripes : beak bluish-black, cere and under man- 

 dible yellow. The young and the females differ con- 

 siderably from the males : in the former the nuchal 

 collar is whitish, and the under parts of the body are 

 distantly rayed brown on a white or reddish ground ; 

 the upper parts of the body, the wing-coverts, and 

 those of the tail are also rayed with broad brown and 

 red bands : the feathers on the top of the head and 



