. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. —THE FALCONS. 21)3 Sp. CriAR. Form strong an,l , like /;. borenlh, hut still iimiv rnliust; tibial plimios unusually dovclopc.,1, ^ a„.l l„„ thfir .m,!. rea.'hin- t., or boyoiul the has. of ,1,,'. toes; latoral toos ncaily .Miual. Four o,. :..n,.s ,vith ii,uor webs cut. • r-7'l-^;""r';'""^\'""' ''^"-l'^""; ™'"'""- l-^'U; tarsus. ^-;:i; to.; i->" : ^^
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. —THE FALCONS. 21)3 Sp. CriAR. Form strong an,l , like /;. borenlh, hut still iimiv rnliust; tibial plimios unusually dovclopc.,1, ^ a„.l l„„ thfir .m,!. rea.'hin- t., or boyoiul the has. of ,1,,'. toes; latoral toos ncaily .Miual. Four o,. :..n,.s ,vith ii,uor webs cut. • r-7'l-^;""r';'""^\'""' ''^"-l'^""; ™'"'""- l-^'U; tarsus. ^-;:i; to.; i->" : ^^.arly unilorni black, Irom a sooty to a tint wit. more or less of eoneealed pure while. .1,/,,//. Tail ,,llv (le,l lonfrilmli- nally, with grayish, ., nnil white, olten tin^^ or with " the dillerent Sbmles varynig m relative mnount in .liUerenl ; a snhterminal han-l of hlaek. loang lail grayish-brown, crossed by about nine very regular and sharply defined, broad bands of black, about in width to the gray ones. AduU male (Lawrence, , Oct., LS71 ; in Col-" le<'tion of Kansas University). (Jeneral color deep, almost carbonaceous, l,lnck, showing much exposed white on the head, neck, and breast, all the leathers of which are snowy white beneath the the black being merely in the form of tear-shaped spots on the terminal portion of the feather: chin lores and front pure white ; upper parts in general, the posterior lower parts and the linin- of the wing, with the black unbroken, hut all the feathers — excqit the under wing-eoverts— more or .spotted with while iieneath the surface, on a ground; these spots being arranged in pairs on each side of the shaft, on the tlanks; tail-eoverta, above imd below, spotted irregularly with bright rufous, in nearly etiual amount with the black and white. Aluhe, primary coverts, and primaries, with quadrate
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