FALCON. 147 



body, spotted with ferruginous forwards, and white behind ; tail 

 brown ; the feathers on the posterior side Avhite, fasciated with four 

 deep browii bands ; rump whitish ; legs white, thick, and rough ; 

 claws crooked. 



Inhabits the neighbourhood of Astrachan, is remarkably fierce 

 and voracious, and will sometimes prey on dead aniiiuils as well as 

 liWng ones- 



69.— PONDICHERRY EAGLE. 



Falco ponticerianus, Ind. Oriu i. p. 23. Gm. Lin. i. 265. Bris. i. 450.. t. 35. Id. 8vo. 



129. Daud. ii. p. 55. Shaw''s Zool. rii. p. 91. 

 Aigle de Pondicherrj-, Buf. i. 1-30. PI. eiil. 416. 

 Aig^le Malabarre, Ess, Philos. p. 55. 

 Pondicherry Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. p. 41. Id. Sup, p. 12; Id. Sup. 2. p. 32. Nat. 



Misc. 389. 



LENGTH 19 in.— breadth 3^ ft.— size of the Jerfalcon. Bill 

 pale green, with a tinge of blue, tip yellow ; cere bluish ; irides pale 

 brown ; colour of the body chestnut, shafts of the feathers blackish ; 

 head, neck, and breast white, with aline of brown down the middle 

 of each feather* — the end half of th^ first six quills black ; tail 7.}in. 

 long, the six middle feathers pale fulvous at the tips, the three others, 

 on each side, with narrow blackish bands on the inner webs; legs 

 yellow, claws black. 



Some specimens have darker tail feathers, plain, without any 

 perceptible bands, being merely dusky on the outer margins. 



* That figured in the Nat. Misc. has no brown lines down the shafts, 



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