FALCON. 



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Crefted Falcon, Dillon's Tra<v. through Spain, p. So. t. j. 



64. 



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« rpHIS curious bird," fays Mr. Dillon, " which is about the Description. 



fize of a Turkey, raifes his feathers on his head in the 

 form of a creft, and has a hooked bill ; the lower mandible ra- 

 ther ftrait : his back, wings, and throat are black; the belly white: 

 the tail diftinguifhed by four cinereous and parallel ftripes, and is 

 an undefcript bird, not taken notice of by Linnaus *." 



Baron Dillon, in the plate referred to above, fays that his 

 draught was taken from one of thefe alive, at the menagerie 

 at the royal palace of Buen Retiro, at Madrid, in the year 1778a 



Black and White Indian Falcon, Pen. Ind. Zool. t. i. 



ENGTH fixteen inches: weight ten ounces. Bill black: ir'ides 



reddifti yellow : orbits fpeckled with white : head, neck, 



back, fcapulars, quills, and fom'e of the middle coverts of the 



wings, black ; the reft of the wings, body, and tail, pure white : 



legs yellow : claws black. 



Inhabits Ceylon, and called by the Cingalefe, Kaloe koefo elg&ya. 

 In Ceylon Hawks of feveral kinds are trained for falconry, but 

 whether this enters the lift is not certain. 



* In the collection of drawings at Sir A. Lever's, there is one of this very 

 bird, faid to be taken from the life, and moft likely from the very fubjeft ; which 

 diifers not from M. Dillon's defcription, except in having the appearance of a 

 white collar on the neck. The bill, both in M. Dillon's as well as Sir A. Lever's 

 drawing, appears to be remarkably hooked, and different from that of the 

 Falcon genus. 



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