162 FALCON. 



head ; irides yellow ; crown, neck, back, and wing coverts, pale 

 cinereous grey ; larger coverts marked near the tips with black ; 

 quills white, barred within halfway from the base with dusky black, 

 the end half black ; beneath the wings striated white and black; 

 breast, belly and rump, white, marked with curved white bands ; 

 tail black, crossed about the middle with a white band, dotted with 

 black ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Madagascar, called, by the French, Aigle-raye — from 

 the bareness about the head, and the claws not being greatly hooked, 

 it might incline one to think it belonged to the Vultures. 



86.-ORIENTAL FALCON. 



Falco orientalis, Ind. Orn. i. 22. Gm. Lin. i. 264. Daiid, ii. 76. 

 Oriental Hawk, Geii. Syn. i p. 34. *e. 



LENGTH 17 in. Bill large, hooked, black; base beneath 

 yellow ; plumage above dark l^rown, most so on the head ; over the 

 eye a streak of ferruginous ; thighs and vent banded with brown ; 

 quills dark brown ; on the inner webs oval spots of white, placed 

 transversely, and an obscure dusky one of white on all but the three 

 first; tail Sin. long, the feathers marked with obscure dirty white 

 spots, from the base to within half an inch of the end, which is 

 dusk}' ; legs pale lead-colour. 



The above flew on board a ship near the coast of Japan. 



