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31LACK AND WHITE FALCON. 



Falco melanoleucos. F. albus, capite collo dor so remigibusque 

 nigris. 



White Falcon, with blackhead, neck, back, and quill-feathers. 

 Falco melanoleucos. Penn. Ind. ZooL 

 Black and White Indian Falcon. Lath. syn. 

 Le Tchoug. LevailL Ois. Jj'r.pL 32. 



Described by Mr. Pennant in his Indian Zoology. 

 Its length is sixteen inches^ and its weight about 

 ten ounces : the bill is black ; the irides reddish 

 yellow; the head, neck, back, scapulars, quill- 

 feathers, and some of the middle coverts black; 

 the remainder of the bird pure white. Native of 

 Ceylon, where it is called Kaloe Koeroelgoya. The 

 Tchoug of Levaillant is probably the same bird in 

 a younger state. 



STELLATED FALCON. 



F^alco stellatus. F. svperne nigricans , maculis stellas referentibus 

 respersusy inferne ex albo ^ nigro varius, pedibus cceruleis, 

 Briss, orn. 



Falcon of a blackish colour above, with star-like spots, beneath 



varied with black and white, with blue feet. 

 Falco stellaris. Briss. Falco cyanopus. Gesn. Sf Aldr, Charkt, 



Exer.p.7<i' 



This species, if any such exists, appears to be so 

 very obscurely known that perhaps it ought not to 

 be introduced into any systematic ornithological 



