190 FALCON. 



marked on the breast with narrow dashes of black, and on the sides 

 with sagittal ones; shoulders, back, wing coverts, rump, and tail 

 coverts blue-grey, transverely marked with, narrow black lines, three 

 or four on each feather ; quills dusky, barred with white on the inner 

 webs, and margined with white at the tips, the second the longest ; 

 tail six inches long, rounded, bluish-grey, crossed with six or seven 

 narrow black lines, in bars ; near the end a very broad one of black, 

 and finally all ending in white ; the wings, when closed, reach to 

 within an inch and half of the end of the tail ; thigh feathers long ; 

 legs yellow, toes long, claws black. 



Inhabits India ; found at Calcutta, but rarely, supposed a male. 

 The female is larger, but not greatly differing in colour. It is one of 

 the sorts called Tormuti or Toormooti. At first sight it appears to 

 have the air and colour of the Peregrine, but differs somewhat in the 

 bars on the tail ; the length too of the middle toes seems to correspond 

 with that bird, and the mark beneath the eye may add to the idea, 

 but it is less, and not improbably a distinct species. I owe the 

 above description to Dr. Buchanan. 



In the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther is one like this, but only 

 eleven inches in length, is there called Toolmorley, or Small Pere- 

 grine. This may probably be a small male. In a drawing, said to 

 be of a female, the name in the Hindoo Tongue, is Lerjana. 



115.— ZtJGGUN FALCON. 



SIZE uncertain ; general make short and thick, as the Buzzard ; 

 bill stout, yellowish, with a dusky tip ; cere yellow ; irides >> hitish ; 



