210 FALCON. 



138.-CHIPUCK FALCON. 



LENGTH 11 in. Bill black; cere pale yellow; head marked 

 with dusky and whitish spots ; back deep brown, margins of the 

 feathers fringed with ferruginous ; scapulars marked with five or six 

 white spots ; throat, neck, and breast, white, with large broad, 

 brown streaks ; thighs the same, but the streaks fewer ; belly and 

 vent white ; tail four inches long, pale brownish ash-colour, crossed 

 with five bars of black, the first at the base, the fifth close to the 

 ends of the feathers, but the very tips beyond are white ; the two 

 middle ones nearly lead-colour, with very obsolete bars ; legs long, 

 pale yellow; claws black. 



Inhabits India, and there known by the name of Chipuck. It 

 seems to have great affinity to the Pigeon-Hawk. 



139.— BROWN'S HAWK. 



Falco badius, Ind. Orn. i. 43. Gtn. Lin. i. 280, Daud. ii. 86, 



Falco Brownii, Skaw^s Zool. vii, 161. 



Brown Hawk, Gen, Si/n. i. p. 96. Brown, III. p, 6, t, 3. 



LENGTH 13 inches. Bill blue, with a black tip ; irides yellow ; 

 plumage above brown; ^ving coverts edged with white; scapulars 

 brown, spotted with white; quills dusky, edged with pale brown; 

 fore part of the neck, and under parts white, crossed with numerous 

 semi-circular yellow lines ; tail marked with four dusky lines ; legs 

 very pale yellow 



