FALCOX. 69 



A-iolently, brings others to its aid, by vvliose assistance the Falcon is 

 driven off. It builds not unlike the Cinereous Eagle, and lays from 

 three to five spotted eggs. The flesh is sometimes eaten, and the 

 skin used by the Greealanders for cloatliing. The wings .serve for 

 brushes, and the legs are used as amulets. 



In some dramngs done in India, I observe a pale Falcon, 

 which is probably a further variety. The ground colour of the 

 head nearly white, the feathers blotched with brown down the 

 shaft ; general colour of the plumage above the body pale brown, 

 marked with deeper brown down the shafts; quills darker, second 

 quilis barred with dusky ; tail rounded at the end, pale dusky 

 cream colour, with two narrow, cuned, rufous-chocolate bars near 

 the ends, crossing all the feathers ; vent white ; quills and tail equal 

 in length. 



Inhabits the country about Bengal, in India, and called 

 jMucharin, 



18.— BOOTED FALCON. 



Fako pennatus, Ind. Orn. i. 19. Gm. Lin. i. 172. Daud. ii. 106. Bris. App. p. 22, 



t. 1. Id. 8vo. i, p. 120. Shaw's Zool. vii. 146, 

 Booted Falcon, Gen. Syn. i, 75. Id. Sup. ii, p. 24. 



SIZE of the Jerfalcon; length ]9|in.; bill blackish; cere 

 and eyelids luteous ; plumage above blackish brown, ^vith a tinge 

 of violet, and variegated with dirty grey ; beneath yellow brown, 

 with longitudinal blackish lines; head and neck behind fulvous 

 grey, with lines of the same; over the eyes a black stripe; tail 

 brown, towards the end blackish; tip grey, with whitish grey 

 spots on the sides ; legs feathered to the toes, which are luteous. 



