166 FALCON. 



Keepers of the Aviary say, that three or four were received from a 

 Hill Chief, a few years since, and that they were called Jucca- 

 Siccara. The servants of the Nepal Vakeel thought that it is found 

 in their countiy, and called Roylow ; but a Nepalese servant of Dr. 

 Buchanan observed, that it is less than the Roylow, and that both 

 the Parbutties and Nawars call it Cohy, It is a most beautiful 

 species, and the Ornithologist will feel himself indebted to the 

 Doctor, not only for this, but many new Indian species, in other 

 genera, hereafter to be mentioned. 



91— CRESTED INDIAN FALCON. 



Falco cirvhatus, Ind. Orn. i. 36. Bris. i. 360. Id. 8vo. 104. Raii, p. 14. Will. p. 



48. Gm. Lin. i. 274. Daud. ii. 113. Shaw's ZooL vii. 147. 

 Faucon huppe des Iiides, Biif. i. 271. 

 Crested Indian Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 80. Id. Sup. p. 20. Will. Engl. p. 82. 



ALMOST the size of a Goshawk ; bill blue ; cere luteous ; irides 

 yellow ; plumage above black ; top of the head flat, with a forked 

 crest, hanging downwards ; under part of the body striated black 

 and white; neck fulvous; tail banded black and ash-colour; legs 

 feathered to the toes, luteous ; claws black. 



Inhabits the East Indies ; it varies in having a black bar across 

 the breast, and another on the wing coverts. 



