116 FALCON. 



F. — Falco ruber indicus, Ind. Orn.'u 31. Gm. Lin.'i. 271. Bris. i. 333. Id. Svo. 96. 



Rail Syu. p. 14. IVill. p. 47. 

 Red Indian Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. 69. Will. Eng. p. SI, t. 9. 



The female has a cinereous bill; cere and eyelids luteous; irides 

 obscure ; at the outer angle of the eye an oblong iidvous spot ; head 

 and upper parts brownish ash ; breast and under parts, rump, upper 

 tail, and wing coverts, of a reddish fulvous coloiu", with a few spots 

 of tlie same on the breast ; tail crossed with black and ash-coloured, 

 curved, bands ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



The male is brighter in colour, the brownish ash-coloured parts 

 being nearly black. This sex is also smaller than the female. 



Inhabits the East Indies. It is on Brisson's authority that we 

 place it here as a variety of the falcon. Originally described by 

 Aldrovandus. 



G. — Falco Itallcus, Ind. Orn. i. 32. Gm. Lin.\. 271. Bris.'i. -336, Johnst. At^ 



p. 19 ? 

 Italian Falcon, Gen. Si/n. i. p. 70. 



The bill in this is blue ; head and neck reddish yellow, marked 

 with very narrow ferruginous lines; breast yellow spotted with 

 ferruginous ; ends of the wings marked with round spots of white ; 

 legs yellow. We leam from the above authors that this bird is found 

 on the mountains of Vicenza, and the Alps which divide Germany 

 from Italy. It is probably a variety of the common falcon.* 



* InM. d'Azara's Voy. is mentioned a brown and spotted falcon, found at Paraguay, 

 which is a varietj' also of the common falcon. 



