16S FALCON, 



92 — CEYLONESE CRESTED FALCON. 



Falco Ceylanensis, Ind. Orn. i. 36. Gm. Lin. i. 275. Daud. ii. 113. S/iaw's Zool. 



vii. 149. pi. 21. 

 Ceylonese Crested Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 82. 



SIZE uncertain ; bill dusky ; cere yellow ; plumage wholly as 

 white as milk; on the head two feathers hanging behind, like a 

 pendent crest. 



Inhabits Ceylon — Mr. Pennant ; probably a variety of the last 

 described. Wolf mentions a A¥hite Hawk, which is, according to 

 the people of Malabar, a bird of augury, for if one is seen flying- 

 over their heads in a morning, they will not undertake a journey, or 

 any business of moment on that day.* 



93.— CHICQUERA FALCON. 



Falco cirrhatus, Ind. Orn. i. 36. var. ? Shaw's Zool. vii. 176 

 Le Chicquera, Levail. Ois. i. p. 30. 

 Chicquera Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup, 2. p. 27. 



THE bill of this bird is not unlike that of the crested Falcon ; 

 the upper mandible has a double notch, and the under truncated ; 



• A circumstance, similar to this, is mentioned under the head of the Lanner of Abji- 

 sinia. — Penn. Hindoost. i. 204. 



