170 FALCON. 



95.— JAPONESE FALCON. 



Falco Japonicus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 13: Gm. Lin. i. 257. Daud. ii. p. 50. 

 Japonese Hawk, Gen. Syn. i. p. 33.* 7. b. 



LENGTH 23 in. Bill small, blue, with a black tip ; beneath 

 the lower mandible yellowish ; cere dusky ; forehead buff-colour ; 

 head and body above brown, each feather tipped with ferruginous ; 

 across thehindhead a mixture of pale cream colour, and beneath this 

 much blotched with the same ; cheeks palish, streaked with brown ; 

 from the chin springs a crescent of black, placed much like that in the 

 Hobby ; chin white, with fine lines of black ; fore part of the neck 

 and breast brown, each feather margined with yellowish white ; 

 belly the same, but darker; quills dark, marked within with 

 transverse oval feriiiginous spots ; all, but the four or five outer ones, 

 tipped with the same ; the wings, when closed, reach rather beyond 

 the middle of the tail, which is eight inches long, deep brown, all 

 the feathers spotted on both webs with ferruginous, except the ex- 

 terior ones, which are plain on the outer webs ; legs yellow, claws 

 large, hooked, and black. 



A specimen of this bird flew on board a ship, off the coast of 

 Japan. 



