. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . ritish museum, that it has been ascertained byBritish Ornithologists to have been described by Sundevall, a Swedish Naturalist who visit-ed Calcutta, under the name now applied to it. I am much inclined to consider that thefigure of the Falcon in the PI. Enl. 469 was taken from a Shaheen, but this is said to havebeen European, and the Shaheen has not to my knowledge been hitherto enumerated, ex-cept in the Fauna of India, though I have little do
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . ritish museum, that it has been ascertained byBritish Ornithologists to have been described by Sundevall, a Swedish Naturalist who visit-ed Calcutta, under the name now applied to it. I am much inclined to consider that thefigure of the Falcon in the PI. Enl. 469 was taken from a Shaheen, but this is said to havebeen European, and the Shaheen has not to my knowledge been hitherto enumerated, ex-cept in the Fauna of India, though I have little doubt that it extends far west, throughoutAsia at all events. The present figure was taken from a living trained female in my possession, that hadcompleted one moult. The subsequent changes consist in the whole of the spots on thelower surface gradually disappearing, and in the upper plumage becoming lighter, andmore slaty in hue. Dimensions of a female are as follows : length about 18|, wing 13i, tail 6^. With re-ference to the addendum at the end of my first Number, I may state that the F. guttatusthere alluded to is not the Shaheen. ^late
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