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Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds, with Descriptions of some 

 presumed new Species. By Edward Blyth, Curator to the Museum 

 of the Asiatic Society. 



A highly interesting collection of bird-skins, from Darjeeling, having 

 been kindly entrusted to my charge by Dr. Pearson, for the purpose of 

 describing, or otherwise noticing such among them as I may consider 

 to be new, or worthy of some remark, I avail myself of the occasion 

 not only to respond to the wishes of that gentleman, but to record a 

 variety of observations upon other Indian and Malayan species of birds, 

 which have recently fallen under my notice. 



1. Falco Aldrovandi, Reinwardt, Tern. PI. Col. 128; F. severus, 

 Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII. 135 ; F. subbuteo (?), Franklin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1831, 114. (Red-bellied Falcon.) Nearly allied to the Hobby 

 Falcon (F. subbuteo). Length of a male about 10£ inches; of wing 

 8^- inches, and tail 4^ inches ; bill to forehead, including cere, f inch 

 over the curve, and rather more from point of upper mandible to gape ; 

 tarse posteriorly 1 inch, and middle toe and claw 1^ inch. Colour 

 above uniform dusky-black, with a very slight greyish cast, which is 

 chiefly visible upon the back, and also on the tail, the medial fea- 

 thers of which are obscurely barred with black, which colour extends 

 down their middle ; inner webs of the other tail-feathers having seven 

 or eight well defined rufous bars, which also appear more or less on 

 their exterior webs, excepting on the outermost; feathers at the 

 sides of the back of the neck rufous, excepting at the tip, which colour 

 indeed extends on the inner web to the tip in a very few, so that this 

 rufous is always more or less visible : throat and front of the neck clear 

 fulvous-white ; the lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts, black like the crown : 

 rest of the under-parts, sides, and inside of the wings to the greater 

 quills, deep ferruginous, comparatively dilute on the breast, and each 

 feather having a medial black stripe or spot : primaries barred for two- 

 thirds of their length on the inner web with a series of transverse rufous 

 spots: bill dusky-bluish, the lower mandible yellow except at the 

 tip : legs bright yellow : all the tail-feathers are narrowly tipped with 

 rufous-white ; and the scapularies, tertiaries, and larger wing-coverts are 





