FALCO ICHTHY^TUS. 



Ord. I" Les Oiseaux de Pkoie, Cuvier. 1" Famille. Les Diurnes. 



2*^ Division. Les Faucons. 

 Ord. I^' Rapaces, Temminck. 

 Ord. I. AcciPiTRES, Linn. Syst. 

 Ord. III. Raptatores, Illiger. Fam. 18. Accipitrini. 



FALCO, Linji. Lath. Cuv. Temminck, Illiger. 



Char. gen. — Rostrum mediocre, crassiusculum, aduncum, compressum, basi ceri- 



gerum, tomiis maxillaribus ssepius dentigeris. 

 Nares laterales, ad marginem anticvim ceromatis sitee, rotundatse, patulse, apertse. 



Lingua cartilaginea, apice acuta SEepius fissa. 

 Caput plumis densis tectum. 

 Pedes mediocres, validi, insidentes, ssepius hirsuti aut semihirsuti. Tarsus digito 



medio longior. Acrotarsia aut scutulata, aut clypeata, aut reticulata Acrodac- 



tyla scutulata. Ungues validi, incurvi, acutissimi. Pelma torulosum scabruin 



(Illiger). 



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Falco fuscus, cera cserulea, pedibus flavescentibus, ventre postice crisso cruribus 



caudaque prseter apicem albis, capite canescente. 

 Jokowuru, of the Javanese. 

 Falco Ichthysetus, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds frmn Java, Li?m. Trans. 



Vol. XIII. p. 136. 



In the concise description of a collection of birds from Java, which is contained 

 in the XIII* Volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, the Falco 

 Ichthysetus is arranged anaong the Balbusards of the celebrated Cuvier, which 

 belong to the AquUee of Bechstein and Temminck. As our bird, and the Falco 



