80 FALCONING, 



indistinct bars of black ; tail bluish grey crossed by a broad subterminal and 

 other narrow bars of black. Quills brownish black, externally washed with grey 

 and barred with white about half way up the inner web ; crown of the head, 

 lores, feathers round the eye, and a slight moustachial streak dull blackish ; 

 sides of the face, neck and throat unspotted creamy white, also the breast ; 

 the latter with mesial streaks of black on each feather ; flanks barred ; 

 thighs, vent and under tail -coverts pale rufous. Under wing-coverts white 

 with black spots. 



Length. 10*5 inches ; culmen 0*75 ; wing 9*5, tail 5*3 ; tarsus IT. 



Hab. Mr. Sharpe gives, AmoorLand, N. China, Nepaul, E. Coast of Africa 

 and Natal. It migrates during winter to India, and has been found in the 

 Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Central India, the Concan, Deccan, and also in 

 N.-E. Cachar and British Burmah. 



Its habits are quite like those of the Lesser Kestrel, building in communities 

 and hunting in company for grass-hoppers and other insects. 



SUB -ORDER, PANDIONES. 



Outer toe reversible ; toes devoid of feathers ; eyes lateral ; no facial disk ; 

 plumage close and compact. Nostrils not concealed by bristles. 



Gen. Pandion. Savigny. 



Bill short rounded above and curved from the cere. Upper mandible 

 with a slight festoon. Nostrils small, obliquely transverse ; wing lengthened ; 

 second quill longest; distance between tips of primaries and secondaries 

 greater than length of tarsus; legs naked ; tarsi with reticulate scales. 



78. Pandion hali8DtUS, Lin. Syst. Nat. \. p. 129; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. 

 B. M. i. p. 45O ; Less. Man. d* Ornithology, i. p. 86 ; Sw. and Rich. Faun. 

 Bor.Am.Birds,^.2^', Gould. Birds of Eur. pi. 12; Bp. Consp.i. 16 ; Jerd. 

 B. Ind. i. p. 80, No. 40 ; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 234 ; id. Stray Feathers, 

 i. p. 159; Blanford, Eastn. Persia, p. 114; Murray, Hdbk., Zool., fyc., Sind, 

 p. IIO; id. Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 81 ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 203. Pandion 

 indicus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81. Muchee-Mar., Sind; Much 

 Murrung, Hind. The OSPREY. 



Head and nape white, the feathers of the forehead and crown with dark 

 brown stripes ; a dark brown streak from the eyes over the ears ; upper 

 plumage rich hair brown ; quills blackish ; tail pale brown with dark bars, 

 whitish on the inner web ; beneath pure white with some brown spots on the 

 breast, longitudinal in youth, broader in advancing age, and tending to coa- 

 lesce in the fully adult ; irides bright yellow ; legs and feet plumbeous 

 yellow. 



Length. Of a female 26 inches; wing 20; tail 9; tarsus 2-4; bill black. 



