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100— BEHREE FALCON. 



Falco calidus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 41. Daud. 2. 122. Shaw's Zool. vii. 176. 

 Behree Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 35. 



LENGTH 19 in. Bill pale blue; plumage blackish browii 

 above, white beneath ; the black curving forwards to the throat, and 

 the white in like manner passes backwards above, nearly as in the 

 Black Falcon; breast, belly, and thighs marked Avith cordated, 

 black spots, flatted at top; tail indistinctly banded with paler colour; 

 legs yellow ; claws black. 



The immature bird has the upper paits pale reddish brown; 

 throat, and a patch behind the eye, white; fore part of the neck and 

 breast marbled, pale brown and white. 



Inhabits India, and is called Behree. Having been favoured, 

 by Dr. Buchanan, with the inspection of drawings made in India, 

 as well as in others of Gen. Hardwicke, I find among them one of 

 these, said to be a young female, in which the bill is much arched 

 from the root ; irides dark brown ; feathers of the crown sharp 

 pointed, and the cro\vn surrounded with a pale ring ; ground colour 

 of the body beneath reddish white ; the feathers of the thighs reach 

 half way on the legs ; and the wings, when closed, extend nearly 

 to the end of the tail, which appears banded, each feather having 

 two roundish clay-coloured spots on each side of the shaft, and 

 in six or seven rows, giving the idea of as many bands ; in other 

 things the first description will serve. In some drawings these clay- 

 coloured spots are ciuite white. 



Dr. Buchanan informs me, that it is known in Hindustan proper, 

 by the name of Baihri,* and is the Boihri of the Bengalese. It is 



* This name said to be derived from the Persian, 



