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BLACK AND WHITE FALCON. 



Falco melanoleucos. F. albus, capite collo dorso remigibusque 



nigris. 

 White Falcon, with blackhead, neck, back, and quill-feathers. 

 Falco melanoleucos. Penn. Ind. Zool. 

 Black and White Indian Falcon. Lath. syn. 

 Le Tchoug. Levaill. Ois. Ajr.pl. 32. 



Described by Mr. Pennant in his Indian Zoology. 

 Its length is sixteen inches, and its weight about 

 ten ounces : the bill is black ; the irides reddish 

 yellow; the head, neck, back, scapulars, quill- 

 feathers, and some of the middle coverts black; 

 the remainder of the bird pure white. Native of 

 Ceylon, where it is called Kaloe Koeroelgoya. The 

 Tchoug of Levaillant is probably the same bird in 

 a younger state. 



STELLATED FALCON. 



Falco stellatus. F. svperne nigricans, maculis Stellas referentibus 



respersus, inferne ex albo fy nigro varius, pedibus cxruleis. 



Briss. orn. 

 Falcon of a blackish colour above, with star-like spots, beneath 



varied with black and white, with blue feet. 

 Falco stellaris. Briss. Falco cyanopus. Gesn. ty Aldr. Charlet. 



Exer.p. 73. 



This species, if any such exists, appears to be so 

 very obscurely known that perhaps it ought not to 

 be introduced into any systematic ornithological 



