la 



FALCON. 



JEAN LE 

 BLANC. 



Jean le blanc. Gen. Syn, i. p. 39, N" 17, 



HIS fpecies is pretty frequent in the fouthern parts o( Ruffia,. 

 efpecially about the rivers Don and Volga, though not met 

 with in Sibiria : is ufed in falconry by the Calmucs *. 



NEW HOL- 

 LAND WHITE 

 E. 



New Holland White E. Gen. Sjn. i. p. 40. N°'i8. 



A Specimen of this is in the colledlion of ^r'Jo/eph Banks, 

 The whole plumage is white, the quills not excepted j in 

 which it differs from the Louijiane, p. ^6. The quills reach only 

 to the beginning of the tail. 



21. 



PONDICHER- 



.RY E. 



Pondicherry E. Gen. Syn. i. p. 41. N" 2r. 

 AigleMa.l3.hs.ne, Ef.Piil. p. SS- 



npHIS is frequent both on the Coromandel and Malabar coaft, 

 and is fc> common on the latter, that it is by fome called the 

 Malabar Eagle : it refembles, in many circumftances, the manner 

 of ih.t Kite ; is a very bold bird, though not of fo docile a race as 

 to be ufed in falconry : it is called at Jndojian, Tchil; and in the 

 Tamoul language, known by the name of Kueronden ; by the 

 French called Oi/eau-bramey and by the Englijh, Bramary Kite ; be- 

 ing held facred by all, in compliance with the refpefl paid it by 

 the Bramins of India, 



* Decmv, Ruf/m. p. loi^. 



Whits. 



