164 FALCON. 



testaceous on the breast, and from thence to the vent with reddish 

 brown ; vent white ; qnills dusky, spotted white within ; tail crossed 

 with five indistinct dusky bands ; beneath pale. 



Inhabits the Isle of Java, first seen perched on a rock, seizing^ 

 5inall birds, which passed within reach, and was by chance killed 

 with a stone. 



A.— Falco Javanicus, Ind. Orn. i. 27. Gm. Lin. i. 267. Wurmh> apud Lieht. Mag. 



iv. 2. 8. Baud. ii. 171. Shaw's Zool. vii. 172, 

 Javan Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. 2. p. 36. 



The cere of this bird is black, marked with yellow in the 

 middle; head, neck, and breast, chestnut; back brown; legs yellow. 



Inhabits Java, said to feed on fish — probably a variety, if not 

 the same as the last described. The three last seem to be allied. 



89.— LAKE FALCON. 



Falco limnaeetus, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 138. Horsfield. 



SIZE uncertain ; bill strongly curved, compressed ; edges of the 

 mandibles incui'vated, the end of the lower obliquely truncated ; cere 

 small, nostrils oval, tmnsverse; plumage in general brown; tail 

 beneath whitish ash ; the first quill short, second and third gmdually 

 longer, fourth and fifth equal in length, the rest shortening by 

 degrees ; legs rather long, shins wholly covered with feathers ; claws 

 small, all of them nearly equal in size. ; 



