PALCO. 569 



Palaornis vibrisca, Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Psitt., p. 85, 1864. 

 Palaomis pondicerianus, Brehin, Thierleb., p. 70, 1865. 



a. b. Z ? Pudeepyoo, Upper Burma, 1st January 1875. 



These birds were shot on the same day, and the male had a red and the female 

 a black bill. The latter had also a slight shade of blue on the head. 



Order ACCIPITEES. 



Family— FAZCONID^. 



Genus Falco, Linn. 

 5. Falco subbuteo, Linn, 



T/ie Eobhy, Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, vol. i, p. 6, pi. vi, 1738. 



Le Hobreau, Briss. Orn., t. i, p. 375, 1760. 



Falco subbuteo, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 137, 1766; Temm., Man. d'Orn., t. i, p. 25, 1820; 

 Naum., Vog-. Deutschl., Bd. i, p. 296, pi. xxvi, 1822; Werner, Atlas Ois. d'Eur. Bapaces, 

 pi. ix, 1827; Gould, B. Eur., vol. i, pi. xxii, 1837; Yarr., Hist. B. Birds, vol. i, p. 40, 

 1843;Sclilegel, u. Susem, Vog. Eur., taf . x, fig. 1, 1845; Kjgerb., Orn. Dan. Afb., Bd. iii, 

 fig. 1, 1851; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl., pi. viii, 1854; Strickland, Orn. Syn., p. 85,1855; 

 Hewits., Eggs, B. Birds, vol. i, p. 26, pi. ix, fig. 1, 1856 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur., tab. iii, 

 figs. 1, 2, 1858 ; Radde, Reise Sibir., Bd. ii, p. 100, 1863 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 9 ; Moore, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 9; Gould, Birds of Great Britain, pt, viii, 1865; Earman, Ibis, 1868, p. 412; 

 Sundev., Sv. Fogl., p. 215, pi. xxvi, fig. 4, 1869; HeugL, Orn. N. O.— Af., p. 33, 1869; 

 Salvad,, Eaun. Ital. Ucc., p. 20, 1871 ; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 340; Saunders, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 59; Sharpe & Dresser, B. Eur., pt. iv, 1871; Godman, Ibis, 1871, p. 165; 

 Schlegel, Rev. Accipitr., p. 38, 1873; Sharpe, Cat. B., vol. i, p. 395, 1874; Layard, B. S. 

 Afr. ; David, Journ. de Voy. en Chine, t. ii, 1875, p. 39. 



Falco barletta, Daud. Traite d'Orn., t. ii, p. 129, 1800. 



HypotriorcUs subbuteo, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 976; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 20, 1844; Kaup., Contr. 

 Orn., 1852, p. 54; Bonap. Consp.,t. i, p. 25, 1850; Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. i, p. 33, 1862; 

 Tristr., Ibis, 1865, p. 258; Degl. & Gerbe, Orn. Eur., Bd. i, p. 85, 1867; Layard, B. 

 South Africa, p. 21, 1867; Hume, Rough Notes, pt. i, p. 85, 1869 ; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, 

 p. 20, 1869; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld., p. 14, 1872. 



Falco hirundinum, Brehm, Vog. Deutsch., p. 65, 1831. 



Dendrofalco subbuteo, Gray, List Gen. B., p. 3, 1840. 



Bendrofalco hirundinum, Brehm, Naum., 1855, p. 269. 



Dendrofalco arboreus, Brehm, ut supra. 



Hypotriorchis cuvieri, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 20, 1869. 



a. Momien, Yunnan, June 1868. 



I obtained one young specimen at Momien and kept it alive for several months. 

 The feathers of the back in the young are deep brown, and nearly all are edged 

 with a rusty margin. The central tail feathers are uniform slaty with rufous tips, 

 and the others are barred with rufous on the inner webs, and all, with the exception 

 of the external feathers, have a fragmentary bar on the outer webs. The under 

 surface, from the chin to the vent, including the tail-coverts, has a rufous tinge, and 



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