Allan Octavian Hume

“ The tail which is a lighter grey than the back, is barred transversely with black bands, very narrow towards the bases of the feathers, but widening gradually towards their ends, the tips of which are white. ”

“ The female not larger than the male F.Peregrinus."
I defy any one to write in as few words a more absolutely accurate description of my birds than the preceding, except in the one single point, that the horse-shoe in my birds is dark slaty and not black. I can add nothing to the description. The nearly white chin, throat, and sides of neck, the spotless rufescent creamy breast, the tiny triangular spots of the abdomen, the huge, broad, rufous collar with the three dark spots, and the small size serve to distinguish this species from every other yet observed in India. ”

“ The base of the beak is yellow, but the point blue. The eere and the feet are beautiful yellow, and the orbital skin orange. The male is about 14.3 inches (he says a little more than 13 French inches which are equal to 14.24 English inches.) ”