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FALCONID^E. 



Sp. 5. Cy? Baccha. 



Falco Bacha. Shaw, v. vii. /;. 157. pi. 22. — The interior of 



Africa and Java. 

 Sp. 6. Cy? albidus. 

 Cy. cinerascens, subtus capiteque albis ; macula oculari tectrici- 



busque alarum minoribus nigris ; Cauda subfurcatd. 

 Cinerascent Cymindis with the under parts and head white ; a 



spot round the eyes and the lesser wing-coverts black ; the tail 



slightly forked. 

 Falco albidus. Cuv. ? — Azara's Eagle. Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 251. 



Inhabits South America. Length thirteen inches : 

 beak black : cere yellow : head and under parts of the 

 body white : round the eye a black patch : body and 

 wings bluish, but the lesser wing-coverts, near the 

 body, are black : tail hollowed out at the end, the 

 two middle feathers being five lines shorter than the 

 rest, yet the exterior is seven lines shorter than that 

 adjoining, making the shape somewhat forked, or 

 rather doubly rounded ; the two middle-feathers are 

 bluish, the other white, but the shafts and tips incline 

 to blue : legs yellow. 



GENUS XVII.— ASTURINA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum supra convexum ; 



nares lunulatae. 

 Tarsi breves, subgraciles. 

 Ungues longi, acutissimi. 



Beak convex above ; nostrils 



lunulated. 

 Tarsi short, rather slender. 

 Claws long, very acute. 



L Sp. 1. As. cinerea. Vidl. Analyse, p. 68. (B.) Gal. des Ois. 

 pi. 20. 

 As. cinereo-cceridescens corpore subtus Jasciis albidis; cauddjas- 



ciis duabus nigris, apice alba. 

 Ashy-blue Asturina with the body beneath striped with whitish; 

 the tail with two black bands., its tip white. 



