FALCON. 183 



obscure bands, the feathers of it equal in length ; those of the 

 thighs reach below the knees, but not to the toes, as in the Booted 

 Falcon ; the legs are mottled brown ; toes dull ferniginous. 



This was shot on the banks of the river of Lions, in the 

 Giraffe country in Africa, among the Kaminiquas, who did not 

 know the bird ; and as M. Levaillant never saw another, he supposes 

 it to be a i*are species. 



108.— BLACK AND WHITE INDIAN FALCON. 



Falco melanoleucos, Ind. Oni. i. p. 36. Gm. Lin. i. p. 274. Daud. Orn, ii. p. 85. Zool. 



/nd. p. 12. t.2. Shaiv's Zool.vn. 154. 

 Le Faucon i collier des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind, ii. 182. 

 Black and White Indian Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 81. Id. Sup. p. 20. Ind. Zool. iv. 4to. 



p. 33. pi. 2. 



LENGTH 16 inches; bill black; irides rufous yellow; head, 

 throat, hind part of the neck, and back black ; breast, belly, thighs, 

 and rump white ; lesser wing coverts white, the middle ones black ; 

 the greater and secondary quills silvery ash-colour; prime quills 

 black ; tail pale silvery grey ; legs rufous. 



The female is somewhat bigger ; general colour silvery grey ; 

 on the wing coverts three round black spots, and three others on the 

 outer webs of the second quills ; primaries black ; sides of the belly, 

 thighs, and vent white, tranversely striated with rufous red. 



Inhabits India, where it is called Chouama, or Rat-killer; it 

 seems the same bird as my Black and White Falcon, which inhabits 

 Ceylon, and called there Kaloe-koeso-elgoya ; uncertain whether 

 made use of for falconry, though that amusement is there not 

 uncommon. 



