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JEil FALCON. 
streak along the shaft. The spots are smaller on 
the lesser wing coverts, and on the greater 
coverts, secondaries and scapularies, the brown is 
disposed in bars, which do not reach the margins 
of the feathers. The primaries are white, their 
shafts and one or two inches of their ends only 
being blackish brown ; they are narrowly edged 
at the tips with white. The tail feathers and 
their coverts are entirely white. The whole under 
surface of the bird is pure white, except the ends 
of the feathers, which are hair brown. The bill 
is pale greenish grey, becoming darker at the tip ; 
cere and lores wax yellow ; legs yellow.” 
In an adult bird from Hudson’s Bay now 
before us, the length is 23 inches. The crown and 
under parts are pure white, a narrow lengthened 
streak running along the feathers on the sides of 
the breasts and flanks. The crown and cheeks 
have the shafts only black. The tail is also pure 
white, the shafts of the centre feathers only being 
dark brown ; the outer feathers are about half an 
inch shorter than those in the centre. 
The following is the description of a Scotch 
specimen in the collection at Twizel House. It 
was shot by Mr Scobie on his farm of Keoldale, 
in the northern extremity of Sutherlandshire, 
during the winter of 1835. The chin and throat 
are pure white, the feathers of the crown with 
deep hair brown shafts, those of the nape with the 
