176 FALCON. 



found every where in Bengal, frequenting very large trees in solitary 

 places, but not very common ; preys on birds, chiefly pigeons — the 

 jilace of its building is not known. Is commonly used in hawking, 

 and employed to catch small herons, quails, pigeons, doves, and 

 other middle-sized game,* though tlie Hindoos, at least about 

 Calcutta, do not follow tliis sport. 



In Gen. Hardwicke's drawings is a bird called Kooe-ab-Kaus, or 

 Kooe — this is marked about the head as the 13ehree, and is perhaps 

 a joung bird or female — it differs in having the sides of the throat 

 spotted with black ; beneath the body white, with largish dusky 

 marks ; body above plain brown ; quills barred in an indented man- 

 ner, with pale rufous-white, and brown ; tail marked with six or 

 .seven bars on each side of the shaft, but not touching it on the 

 margin. 



Another, smaller, named BhjTee Butcher, said to be a male of 

 the first season, brown above ; beneath dusky white, blotched with 

 brown ; sides of the throat and nape paler ; tail brown, with three or 

 four obsolete pale marks, the end pale ; found at Cawnpore in 

 January. One, said to be a female of the first season, is brown 

 above, the margins of the feathers paler ; beneath dusky whiter 

 blotched with pale brown ; on each side of the jaw a brown whisker, 

 and behind the eye to the nape brown, but the crown and cheeks 

 are mixed dusky and white ; second Cjuills marked with three clay- 

 coloured round spots on each ; upper tail coverts much the same ; 

 tail feathers with five or six clay-coloured spots on each side of the 

 shaft ; the end pale. 



Among the same drawings is a bii'd named CheiTug— said to be 

 of the first season. — It is like the last in most respects, but above the 

 brown is more unifonn, and the head and neck are wholly pale dusky 



* It is said to be extremely strong and bold, killing hares with ease, and is frequently 

 sent in chase of the larger kinds of water fowl — will even attack the Cyrus (or the Indian 

 Crane), also the Manickjoor (Violet Heron), Currakeel, and other large aquatic birds.— 

 Or. F. Sports, ii. 68. 



