204 FALCON. 



sexes are painted, tlie general name given jointly is Carogia and 

 Koonmooly. I observe too, in Lord Mountnorris's drawings, a bird 

 about 14 in. long, with the appearance of a female Kestril — this was 

 named Chuckotiah, and came from the province of Oude» 



133.— SHARP-TAILED KESTRIL. 



THIS has the habit of a Kestril. Bill singular in shape, having 

 a remarkable protuberance within the middle on each side of the 

 upper mandible, colour blue; cere yellow; head fine pale ashr- 

 colour ; the rest of the plumage like that of a Kestril, but plain ; 

 the greater wing coverts barred ; the quills much elongated, narrow, 

 and pointed ; rump and two middle tail feathers dove-colour, like 

 the head, the end for three-fourths black ; the others pale rufous, 

 crossed with ten or twelve bars of black, that nearest the end broad ; 

 these are all shorter than the two middlle ones by three-fourths of an 

 inch, and in all of them the shafts project in a point beyond the tip ; 

 all the tail feathers, except the pointed tips, are square at the ends ; 

 quills and tail even in length, the latter long ; breast, belly, and 

 thighs, pale rufous, spotted on the sides of the belly and under the 

 wings ; thighs full of feathers ; legs yellow, short. 



I found a fine figure of this bird among the drawings of IVIr. 

 Dent, but without any name annexed — supposed to come from 

 India. 



