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BIEDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
The Red-legged Falconet probably occurs over the whole of British 
Burmah as far south as 16° north latitude, below which point Mr. Davison 
did not observe it. Personally I have only procured it in the northern 
portion of Pegu ; but Mr. Blanford met with it near Bassein. 
It extends through the Indo-Burmese countries into India, where it is 
found along the Himalayas as far as Sikhim ; and it occurs in Siam and 
Cambodia. 
This beautiful little Falconet is generally observed on the summit of a 
dead tree, whence it launches out in pursuit of passing insects ; it also at 
times captures small birds. Capt. Bingham found the eggs in Tenasserim 
in April ; they were four in number, white, and deposited in the hole of 
a tree. 
584. MICROHIERAX FRINGILLARIUS. 
THE BLACK-LEGGED FALCONET. 
Falco fringillarius, Brap. Diet. Class. cVHist. Nat. vi. p. 412, pi. v. Hierax 
cserulescens {L.),apud SaUad. Ucc. Born. p. 3. Microhierax fringillarms, 
Shari^e, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. p. 367 ; Hume, 8. F. v. p. 80 ; Hu7ne Sf Dav. S. F. 
vi. p. 5 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 81 ; Gurneij, Ibis, 1881, p. 274 ; Kelham, Ibis, 
1881, p. 364. Hierax fringillarms, Bl. B. Burm. p. 60. 
Description. — Adults have a narrow frontal band, a streak from a little 
above the posterior angle of the eye, backwards over the ear-coverts, chin, 
throat, sides of the neck behind the ear-coverts, cheeks immediately under 
the eye, breast, wing-lining, and numerous bars on the inner webs of all 
the wing- and lateral tail-feathers white. 
The upper portion of the forehead, crown, occiput, nape and a portion 
of the sides of the neck behind the white streaks, ear-coverts and posterior 
portion of cheeks, the entire mantle, upper tail-coverts, central tail-feathers 
and outer webs o£ lateral tail-feathers glossy black with greenish reflec- 
tions ; secondaries, primaries and their greater coverts and winglet blackish 
hair-brown ; sides of the body, flanks and hinder tibial plumes, and tips of 
longest lower tail-coverts also more or less glossy black ; abdomen, vent, 
front of tibial plumes, shorter lower tail-coverts bufiy white or pale ferru- 
ginous, or even in the oldest birds rather deep ferruginous. 
When these parts become the latter colour, the chin and the greater part 
of the throat are generally suffused with pale ferruginous. 
In the quite young bird the bill is yellow ; the frontal band and the 
streak behind the eye are pale ferruginous ; the patch below the eye and 
a margin round the black ear-patch rather paler ferruginous buff* ; margin 
of the wing tinged with the same colour ; no black tip to the lower tail- 
