^24 FALCONIDiE. 

 Sp, 5. Cy? Baccha. 



Falco Bacha. Shatv, v. vii. p. 157. pL 22. — The interior of 



Africa and Java. 

 Sp. 6. Cy? albidus. 



Cy. cinerascens, subtus capiteqiie albis ; macula oculari tectrici- 

 busque alanim minoribus nigris ; Cauda subJiircatA. 



Cinerascent Cymindis with the under parts and head white ; a 

 spot round the eyes and the lesser wing- coverts black ; the tail 

 slightly forked. 



Falco albidus. Cia\? — Azara's Eagle. Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 251. 



Inhabits South America. Length thirteen inches : 

 beak black : cere yellow : head and under parts of the 

 body white : round the eye a black patch : body and 

 wings bluish, but the lesser wing-coverts, near the 

 body, are black : tail hollowed out at the end, the 

 two middle feathers being five lines shorter than the 

 rest, yet the exterior is seven lines shorter than that 

 adjoining, making the shape somewhat forked, or 

 rather doubly rounded ; the two mid die- feathers are 

 bluish, the other white, but the shafts and tips incline 

 to blue : legs yellow. 



GENUS XVII.— ASTURINA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum supra convexum ; Beak convex above ; nostrils 



nares lunulatse. lunulated. 



Tarsi breves, subgraciles. Tarsi short, rather slender. 



Ungues longi, acutissimi. Claws long, very acute. 



Sp. 1. As. cinerea. FieiU Analyse, p. 68. {B.) GaL des Ois 

 pi. 20. 



As. cinereo-ccerulescens corpore subtus Jasciis albidis; caudd Jas- 



ciis duabus nigris, apice alba. 

 Ashy-blue Asturina with the body beneath striped with whitish, 



the tail with two black bands, its tip white. 



