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erts rufous, with transverse bars of dark brown; under surface 
of the wing primaries, blackish grey, with numerous transverse 
bars of bluish grey; under surface of the tail feathers bluish 
grey, with nine or ten transverse bars of bluish black; the bars 
increasing a little in breadth as they approach the tip. 
“Young females have the top of the head reddish brown with 
dusky streaks; the eyes encircled with black, with a small 
black pointed moustache descending from the anterior part of 
the eye; ear coverts white; upper surface of the body, dark 
brown, the feathers ending with reddish brown; wing prima- 
ries, dusky black; the inner edges and tips, buffy white; the 
tail feathers, dark brown with numerous transverse bars of 
reddish brown; throat, white: sides of the neck, the breast, 
and all the under surface of the body, pale, reddish white, with 
brown longitudinal streaks and patches on the breast; the 
thighs and their long feathers, uniform pale ferruginous ; beak, 
cere, irides, &c., as in the adult female.” 
No. 20. Hierax Eutolmus, Hopesoy. 
Tur Rep* Leccep FaAtconet. 
Nothing is known of the breeding of this species. Mr. Blyth 
‘says, that an account of the habits of the nearly allied black 
legged Falconet (H. Fringillarius) is given in the Proceedings 
of the Zoological Society for 1863, p. 206, but of our Indian 
species, [ have failed to find any record. 
It is not, I think uncommon, anywhere in the Himalayas 
east of the Ganges. I have shot it low down at Jewlee in August, 
and at the height of nearly 9000 feet, on the Takhil at the end 
of October. The first I shot, I took as it passed me, from its 
flight and glossy black, white and rufous plumage, to be some 
sort of Swallow, and so did the native with me; but on its falling 
to my shot, and his going to pick it up, he rapidly changed his 
opinion, the fierce little creature having buried its talons and 
the point of its beak in his hand, inflicting wounds quite surpris- 
ing, when the size of the bird, scarcely so large as a Skylark, is 
considered. 
* Three species of this genus may well be separated by the colour of their 
tibial plumes. The present which has these red, under the name above 
given. H. Fringillarius, Drapiez. (H. Malayensis, Strickland and Falco 
Cerulescens, Viellot) as the black legged, and H. Melanoleucus, Blyth, 
(of which I have only seen a drawing) as the white legged Falconets. 
Mr. Blyth pointed out this distinction long ago. 
