. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 274 FALCONID^. part of their extent from the base upwards. Total length 30 inches, culmen 2-35, wing 21, tail 13-5, tarsus 3-6. (Mus. Lufjd.) Adult male. Similar to the female, but smaller. Total length 24 iiK-hes, wing 19-7, tail 13-7, tarsus 3-1. Young female (type of species). Above light brown, the intersca- pulary region darker, and having dull rufous tips to the feathers; wing-coverts and scapulars pale fulvous at the tips, some of the least ones margined with dull rufous; some of the median and all the greater wing-coverts blackish brown,
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 274 FALCONID^. part of their extent from the base upwards. Total length 30 inches, culmen 2-35, wing 21, tail 13-5, tarsus 3-6. (Mus. Lufjd.) Adult male. Similar to the female, but smaller. Total length 24 iiK-hes, wing 19-7, tail 13-7, tarsus 3-1. Young female (type of species). Above light brown, the intersca- pulary region darker, and having dull rufous tips to the feathers; wing-coverts and scapulars pale fulvous at the tips, some of the least ones margined with dull rufous; some of the median and all the greater wing-coverts blackish brown, with broad, irregular bars of ashy grey; quills blackish brown, narrowlj' tipped with fulvous, and irregularly mottled and shaded with silvery grey, the inner- most secondaries dark brown, with grey shading only near the base ; lower surface of wing greyish, the primaries gradually blackish towards tips, and ii-regularly mottled on the inner web, the secon- daries with distinct dark brown cross bands; lower back and rump pale brown, the upper tail-coverts broadly margined with fulvous; tail dark brown, with indications of five or six blackish brown bands, the interspaces more or less inclining to silvery grey, very distinct on the centre feathers ; head and neck all round diiU tawny rufous, the feathers of the crown and nape slightly tipped with fulvous ; under surface of body dull fawn-colour, deeper and more tawny on the breast, and inclining to fulvous on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts deep fawn-colour, like the breast; cere and bill bluish white, the tip of the latter darker ; feet white ; iris yellowish olive. Hah. Batchian, GUolo, Ternate, Aru Islands, Waigiou, New Guinea. a. 5 imm. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. Tvpe of species. b. G\\o\<j {VoH Rosenberg), Leiden Museum [P.]. 45. LOPHOAETUS. „ Type. Morphiuis, Kunp, Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 259 (1845) . L. occipitalis. Lophoaetus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 165 L. Head
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