FALCO. 569 



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

 Palaornis pondicerianus, Brehmj Thierleb., p. 70 1865. 



a.b.ti 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 ACCIPITRES. 



family— FAL CONIDJE. 



Genus Falco, Linn. 

 5. Falco subbuteo, Linn. 



The EoUy, Albin, Nat. Hist. Birds, vol. i, p. 6, pi. vi, 1738. 

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



Falco subbuteo, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 127, 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. Rapaces', 

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

 1843;Schlegel, u. Susem, Vog. Eur., taf. x, fig. 1, 1845; Kjaerb., 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; Parman, Ibis, 1868, p. 412; 

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

 Salvad,, Paun. Ital. Ucc, p. 20, 1871; Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soe., 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. 396, 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. 



Hypolriorclis 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 ; Gumey in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld., p. 14, 1872. 



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



Bendrofalco stibbuieo, Gray, List Gen. B., p. 3, 1840. 



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



Bendrofalco arboreus, Brehm, ut supra. 



Hi/potriorchis 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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