. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . nd, and a marsh in theneighbourhood, and fancy that it occasionally at least feeds on frogs. I know nothing else of its habits, nor even if it is a permanent resident on the hills. Inplumage it is closely allied to Hodgsons fine Buteo canescens, my longipes. I add a brief description of its plumage. Above pale brown, each feather edged withrufous, especially on the head and neck; rump and upper tail coverts uniform brown;tail pale rufous, with n
. Illustrations of Indian ornithology : containing fifty figures of new, unfigured and interesting species of birds, chiefly from the south of India . nd, and a marsh in theneighbourhood, and fancy that it occasionally at least feeds on frogs. I know nothing else of its habits, nor even if it is a permanent resident on the hills. Inplumage it is closely allied to Hodgsons fine Buteo canescens, my longipes. I add a brief description of its plumage. Above pale brown, each feather edged withrufous, especially on the head and neck; rump and upper tail coverts uniform brown;tail pale rufous, with narrow brown bars, the last widest; quills grey brown, white on theinner web with brown bars, except at the tip, beneath nearly pure white, forming a con-spicuous broad white patch on the centre of the closed wing; cheeks and throat whit-ish, each feather centred rufous brown ; rest of plumage beneath bright rufous or chesnut,barred with white; thigh coverts darker and not barred. Irides brown—cere and legsyellow. Length about 21 inches, wing 15, tail 8> bill (at gape) ItV, tarsus StV, wings reachnearlv to the end of the tail. /A/A .1 IT///. Leonard, liOi R«ve iiii|, 1,,, FALCO PEREGPvlNATOR ORD. RAPTORES. FAM. FALCONIBM. GEN. PEBEGRINATOR,THE SHAHEEN FALCON. Syaon.—F. Sliaheen, Jerdon Cat. No. 29, and 111. Ind. Orn. PI. xii. q. t. At Plate XII. of the present work I gave a figiire of the male of the present fine Falcon,under the name of jP. Shaheen. It is only quite recently, since indeed the publication ofMr. Grays list of the Raptores of the British 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
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