Mr . R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 327 
c£ Female adult, shot near Cawnpore, 3rd February, 1869. 
The top of the head is a light reddish brown, of a foxy tinge, 
extending to the upper part of the back, but with the extreme 
tips of most of the feathers of a darker tone, and not so red 
as the body of the feather, giving the appearance of a small 
clouded spot or drop at the tip of the feather; the back and 
all the wing-coverts are dull brown, rather inclined to rufous, 
but with the edges of all the feathers a few shades paler; 
some of the new feathers on the upper part of the back have 
moderately dark-brown centres edged with rather bright 
reddish brown ; from the carpal joint along the ridge of the 
wing to its junction with the body, the feathers are of a 
light rufous similar to the head, but centred with darker 
brown; the primaries are dark blackish brown and free from 
all bars, whether looked at from above or below; the 
secondaries are not so dark a brown, and are slightly glossed 
with purple; the tertials a still paler brown, and decidedly 
glossed with purple ; the middle and lower part of the back 
exhibit a mixture of light tawny and pale brown, the tawny 
prevailing at the sides near the flanks, and the brown towards 
the centre of the back. The upper tail-coverts are brown at 
the centre and tawny at the sides, the middle coverts being 
brown, and the lateral ones tawny, the colours passing rather 
abruptly into each other; the lowest row of the upper tail- 
coverts, however, is white. The tail is brown, becoming much 
paler towards the tip; the basal portion of the shafts is pure 
white; on the inner webs of some of the feathers there are 
faint indications of bars, which are square to the shaft of the 
feather; these bars are only observable when the tail is closely 
examined, and do not appear on the central feathers. There 
is a narrow black supercilium; the sides of the head are dull 
rufous brown, the chin and throat the same, passing into 
light reddish or foxy brown over the rest of the lower surface 
with the exception of the terminal portion of the lower tail- 
coverts, which are more whitish with a mixture of pale tawny; 
the tarsus is not quite so dark and bright a rufous, but more 
inclined to light sandy reddish brown; the upper portion of 
the wing-lining is very rufous, especially at the bend and 
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