48 FALCO HALIiETUS. 
the sides of the mouth, from the nostrils backn ai’^j^’ 
are li^ht blue ; crown and hind head pure white, h'® i, 
streaked with brown; through the eye, a bar of 
blackish brown ]»asses to the neck beliind, n hicl'> ^ 
well as the whole u]»per parts, is deep brown, the cd-j^ 
of the feathers lighter ; shafts of the wing quills bn>" ^ 
ish white ; tail slightly rounded, of rather a paler I*''*’''); 
than the body, crossed nith eight bars of very 
brown; the wings, ^rlien shut, extend about an 
beyond the tail, and are nearly black towards the hV',, 
vanes of both quill and tail feathers 
tish, barred with brown ; whole lower parts V' 
te, exceiit the thighs, which are covered with sh 
hof 
III'* 
the inner 
whitish 
white 
plumage, aud streaked down the fore part with P' 
brown ; the leg's and feet are a very ))alo light W ^ 
prodigiously strong aud disproportionably large, * J 
are coyered with flat scales of remarkable strength * 
thickness, resembling, when dry, the teeth of a 
rasp, particularly on the soles, intended, no doiihb^y 
enable the bird to seize ivith more secairity his slipPVj 
prey ; the thighs arc long, the legs short, feather'' ^ 
little below the knee, and, as well as the feet and 
large; the latter hooked into semicircles, black, 
very sharp pointed ; the iris of the eye a fiery 
orange. _ _ ^ 
The female is full two inches longer ; the nppef P w 
of the head of a less pure white, and the brown 
on the front spreading more over the crown ; the th^rt! 
and upper ])art of the breast are also dashed with ‘‘* 1 ^ 
blotches of a pale brown, and the bar passing thrt'^ 
the eye, not of .so dark a brown. The toes of both 
exceedingly sti'ong and wart}'-, and the hind clan' 
inch and a ([u.arter in diameter. Thp feathers o" 
neck and hind head are long and narrow, and geo'^'^^jl 
erected when the bird is irritated, resembling 
the eagle. The eye is destitute of the projectintT “ ,f, 
common to most of the falcon tribe ; the nostril ^1,,' 
and of a curving triangular shape. On dissectin’'’ .j]] 
two glands on the rump, which supply the bic’^ 
oil for lubricating its feathers to protect them fm”® 
