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117.— KONTA FALCON. 



LENGTH 1ft. lOin. ; size of the Buzzard; bill black; cere 

 pale; irides yellow; head, neck, shoulders of the wings, and all 

 beneath tine pale fermginous, with long, naiTow, dusky streaks ; 

 thighs and vent plain ; back and wing coverts chocolate brown, the 

 feathers margined with tawny ; outer part of the wing and second 

 quills light ash-colour ; greater quills black ; tail dirty pale ash- 

 colour; legs yellow; claws black; quills and tail nearly equal 

 in length. 



Inhabits India ; met with at Cawnpore — Gen. Hardwicke. — ■ 

 Weight of the male, lib. loz. 7dr. — female, lib. 8oz. 14dr.. 



The name given to this bird is Konta, 



118.— MUSKOOROO FALCON. 



LENGTH two feet. Bill black, enlarged and sloping towards 

 the base, but no perceptible notch ; cere yellow ; irides brown ; 

 head, neck, and beneath tine pale tawny rufous ; the feathers at the 

 nape a ti-itie elongated ; chin, throat, and vent, nearly white, the 

 rest more or less marked with streaks of various sizes, and very 

 narrow on the head and neck ; thigh feathers long, reaching to the 

 middle of the shins, and these marked with cordated darker spots ; 

 back and wings brown, the feathers with tawny margins ; quills 



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