O RD RAPTORES. 



TRIBE— FALCON ID M. 



FAM. FALCONING. 

 GEN. FALCO. 



PLATE XII. 



FALCO SHAHEEN. 



THE SHAHEEN FALCON. 



YOUNG MALE. 



Synon. — Falco Shaheen, Jeidon, Madras Joiu-nal of Literature and Science XXIV. — Catal. 

 No. 29. — F. Aldrovandi of tlie Supplement to my Catal., not F. Aldrovandi of Temminck 

 — F. Sultaneus, Hodgson MSS. — F. Ruber Indicus, Brisson Encyclop. Method, page 129. 



Shaheen in Hindustani, tlie male Koela — Jawolum in Teloogoo, Wulloor ia Tamool. 



This fine falcon was I beKeve fii-st noticed by myself in the Catalogue of Indian 

 Birds above alluded to, and the Hindustani name affixed to it as a specific one. Mr. Hodg- 

 son, though he has not described it, lately sent it to the Museum at Calcutta, under the 

 manuscript name of Sultaneus, which, being, as it were, a Latin translation of the native 

 name, I would have adopted had I not previously had my own name printed on the Plate. 

 I learn also &om Mr. Blyth, that it was long ago known to and figured by Buchanan. Mr. 

 EDiot in a note to my description of the Shaheen, says, that he considered it to be the Falco 

 Aldrovandi of Temminck, which is the F. severus of Horsfield, and accordingly, in the 

 Supplement to my Catalogue, I referred to it under that name, statiag that the size as 

 given in Griffith's Cuvier bad misled me, for that otherwise the description appeared to 



