FALCO HUP I COL O IDE S
(Aves. Plate 92)
A ves.— P late XCII. ( F emale.)
F. subrufus, lineis fasciisque brunneis variegatus, fasciis postice acuminatis; gula guttereque rufo-albis;
cauda alteme albo brunneoque fasciatel; oculis brunneis; pedibus viridi-flavis; unguibus comeis;
maxilla livido-viride; mandibuld versus basin flavi.
Longitudo h rostri apice ad basin caudse 10 unc.; caudss 7 unc.
Falco Rupicoloides, Smithy South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. p. 238, 1830.
C olour.—The upper parts of the head and neck, the interscapulars,
the back, the breast, and the belly, have a ground tint intermediate between
light-tile red and buff-orange, the shade deepest on the upper
parts of the head, the back and sides of the neck, the back and the
belly. In these several regions, however, the ground colour is broken
by umber-brown variegations, in the form of narrow longitudinal stripes
on the head, the back and sides of the neck, the breast, and the flanks;
and of transverse bars on the back, the belly, the shoulders, the scapulars,
and the quill coverts. On the back, shoulders, and belly, the bars amount
to two or three on each feather, and many of them posteriorly exhibit a
single fine prolongation following the course of the vane. The longitudinal
stripes, where they occur, are one along the middle of each feather. The
primary and secondary quill feathers are deep umber-brown, the inner vanes
barred with reddish orange, which fade into white towards their inner
edge. Upper tail coverts umber-brown, barred with white; under tail-
coverts nearly white. Tail barred, alternately rusty white and umber-brown,
with a greyish gloss, the dark bars widest, the light-coloured bars of the
two centre feathers are strongly tinted with rufous; the tips of all the tail
feathers are white. The sides of the head behind the eyes, the chin, the