182 FALCON. 



irides reddish ; the reigning colour of the plumage is ferruginous or 

 rufous, paler beneath ; the chin as far as the breast, and the vent pale 

 grey, nearly white ; the quills are black ; the rest of the under parts 

 rufous as above, but paler, and streaked sparingly with dusky; the 

 tail is like the back above, but greyish beneath, marked with some 

 transverse obsolete bands. 



The female is a trifle bigger than the male, and is not so distinct 

 in the colours. 



This species is less frequent about the inhabited parts than the 

 Jackal Falcon, being only seen in the dry and uncultivated spots — 

 it lives, however, on the same kind of food. The cry not unlike that 

 of the European Buzzard. The male and female are mostly seen 

 together, and they make the nest in the same kind of places, and of 

 nearly the same materials. 



lOT.—TACHARD FALCON. 



Falco Tachardus. T7id. Orn. Sup. p. v. Daud.ii. 164. Shaw's Zool. vii. 201. 

 Le Tachard, Levail. Ois. i. 82. pi. 19. 

 Tachard Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. ^. 



THIS is the least of the Buzzard kind, as far as relates to bulk 

 of body, but has a longer tail in proportion. Bill dusky ; cere 

 brown ; irides deep reddish brown ; the head is greyish brown, with 

 here and there some irregular whitish streaks ; the under parts are 

 grejdsh yellow, \vith a mixture of brown blotches ; the upper parts 

 of the plumage deep brown, with the edge of each feather paler ; 

 the tail deep brown, banded with black, beneath greyish white, with 



