192 FALCON. 



116.— JUGGER FALCOX. 



LENGTH nearly 18 inches. Bill blue with a black tip ; cere 

 yellow ; irides red brown ; round the eye bare and yellow ; the fore- 

 head, sides under the eye, and from chin to vent beneath white ; 

 on the under jaw a black streak; behind the eye another of the 

 same, passing to the nape, which, as well as on all the back of the 

 neck, is black; top of the head brown and clay-colour mixed; back 

 and wings brown, tlie edges of the feathers paler; quills dark; thighs 

 deep tawny bi'own, and the feathers long, hanging half-way on the 

 shins ; tail, six inches long at least, rounded, the feathers dirty 

 cinereous white, the very tip white ; the wings reach vsdthin an inch 

 of the end ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



Inhabits India; in the drawings of Gen. Hard wick e, called 

 Jugger — the female called Lugger ; met with at Futteghur. 



The young female weighs lib. loz. 6dr.; is much the same in 

 colour; crown whitish, with dusky stieaks; sides under the eye 

 white, streaked with dusky; the whisker on the jaw the same, and 

 the black stieak behind the eye, and the back of the eye brown, not 

 black ; chin to breast white, the latter dashed with brown ; sides 

 under the wings, belly, and thighs, brown ; vent white ; legs pale, 

 nearly white ; tail pale cinereous white, the end flesh-colour. This 

 is called Lugger, and said to be a young bird. Found at Cawnpore. 



A full grown female, said to weigh lib. 7oz. is larger than the 

 male ; the colours rather more pale ; otherwise not imlike that sex ; 

 but both in this and the female adult, the thigh feathers are pale 

 broAvii, not tawny. — These seem to have some things in common 

 with the last. 



