FALCO ICHTHYiETUS. 
Ord. F Les Oiseatjx be Proie, Cuvier. 1* Famille. Les Diurnes. 
2^ Division. Les Faucons. 
Ord. I" Rapaces, Temminck. 
Ord. L Accifitres, Linn. Syst 
Ord. III. Raptatores, Uliger. Fam. 18. Accipitrini. 
FALCO, Linn. Lath. Cuv. Temminck, lUiger. 
Char. gen. — Rostrum mediocre, crassiusculum, aduncum, compressum, basi ceri- 
gerum, tomiis maxillaribus saepius dentigeris. 
Narcs laterales, ad marginem anticum ceromatis sitee, rotundatae, patula?, apertae. 
Lingua cartilaginea, apice acuta saepius fissa. 
Caput plumis densis tectum. 
Pedes mediocres, validi, insidentes, saepius liirsuti aut semihirsuti. Tarsus digito 
medio longior. Acrotarsia aut scutulata, aut clypeata, aut reticulata Acrodac- 
tyla scutulata. Ungues validi, iucurvi, acutissimi. Pelma torulosum scabrum 
(Illiger). 
Falco fuscus, cera caerulea, pedibus flavescentibus, ventre postice crisso cruribus 
caudaque praeter apicem albis, capite canescente. 
Jo&owuru, of the Javanese. 
Falco Ichthysetus, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 
VoL XIII. p. 136, 
IN the concise description of a collection of birds from Java, which is contained 
in the XIII* Volume of the* Transactions of the Linnean Society, the Falco 
Ichthy&tus is arranged among the Balbusards of the celebrated Cuvier, which 
belong to the Aquilse of Bechstein and Tenumnck. As oux bird, and the Falco 
