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FALCON. 



A. — Le Tchoug, Levail.i. pi. 32. 



Epervier pie, Daiid. ii. p. 88. 



Black and White Indian Falcon, Gen, St/n. Sup. ii, p. 40. 



This seems greatly allied to the Hen-Harrier, as it corresponds 

 in size and shape ; bill black ; head, neck, back, and wings mostly 

 deep brown, but the back part of the head inclines to black, with a 

 mixture of white at the back part of the neck, and wing coverts ; 

 the greater quills dusky, secondaries partly dusky white; all the 

 under parts from the breast, with the rump and tail, are white, but the 

 last, which is nearly even at the end, inclines to rufous grey, and the 

 two middle feathers of it have a sort of brown crescent on the tips • 

 legs long and yellow. 



The above was met with at Bengal, where it is known by the 

 name of Tchoug, and appears to be a bird not come to adult plumage, 

 on account of the mixture of white among the feathers. Mr. L. 

 thinks it may also be a native of the Cape of Good Hope, as he saw 

 a bird of this kind pass over his head, iu which the head and neck 

 were black, and the rump and under parts white, and this was 

 probably our Black and AVhite Falcon, in perfect feather; and if we 

 allow it to be the same with Parkinson's Pied Hawk,* is also found 

 in New-Holland. 



* Voy. p. 144. — In Lord Valentia's Trav. iii. p. 204. I find a Hawk mentioned, shot near 

 the Village of Mumsai, not far from Axum, in Abyssinia, October 22; it is said to be black 

 and white, with a red dusky tail^ the eye large and dark brown— the size not mentioned, only 

 that it is remarkable for the height to which it soars. 



