186 FALCON. 



and anterior angle of it, covered with slender black feathers ; body, 

 head, and upper wing coverts ash-coloured, tipped with grey, with 

 black shafts ; the middle tail feathers white, mingled with ash- 

 colour ; the rest white within, and light grey without. 



Inhabits Egypt, where it is commonly seen suspended in the air 

 over the rice fields, in the manner of the Kestril ; and is sometimes 

 observed to perch on date trees, but never on the ground. 



Ill —BLACK-EYED KITE. 



SIZE uncertain; general colour of the plinnage deep brown 

 above, paler beneath ; belly and thighs brownish cream-colour ; 

 shafts of the feathers, in general, above and beneath, black ; wing 

 coverts somewhat paler than the back ; greater coverts and quills 

 \ery deep brown, the fonner fringed with rufous white — greater quills 

 darkest ; tail pretty long, hollowed out in the middle, or slightly 

 forked; colour deep brown, crossed with seven or eight dusky black 

 bars ; the wings, when closed, reach foil three-fourths on the tail ; 

 vent and under tail coverts nearly white; the bill black ; cere yellow; 

 irides dark ; eye placed in a large oval patch of black ; legs pale 

 yellow. 



Inhabits India, found at Bengal, and there called Chilk. It 

 varies in having the oval blackish patch much less distinct, and the 

 cere and legs of a less bright yellow, probably owing to the differ- 

 ence of sex. ITie name of this latter bird is Guliwauz. 



