FALCO LIMNiEETUS. 
Ord. I ct Les Oiseaux de Proie, Cwier. 1" Famille. Les Diurnes. 
2? Division. Les Faucons. 
Ord. I? Bapaces, Temminck. 
Ord. I. Accipitres, JMm. Syst. 
Ord. III. Raptatores, Illiger. Fam. 18, AccipitrinL 
FALCO, Zfttt* Lath. Cuv. Temm. lUig. 
Char. gen. — Rostrum mediocre crassiusculum, aduncum, compressum, basi ceri- 
gerum, tomiis maxillaribus saepius dentigeris. 
Nares laterales, ad marginem anticum ceromatis sitae, rotundatae, patula?, apertae. 
Lingua cartilaginea, apice acuta saepius fissa. 
Caput plumis densis tectum. 
Pedes mediocres, validi, insidentes, saepius hirsuti aut semihirsuti. Tarsus digito 
medio longior. Acrotarsia aut scutulata, aut clypeata, aut reticulata. Aero- 
dactyla scutulata. Ungues validi, incurvi, acutissimi. Pelma torulosum sca- 
brum. Ittiger* 
Falco fuscus, cauda subtus praater apicem albido-cinerea, tarsis usque ad extremi- 
tatem dense plumosis. 
Wuru-rawa, of the Javanese. 
Falco Limnseetus, Horsf Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn* Trans. 
Vol XIIL p. 138. 
Autour Unicolore, Nouveau Recueil de PL coloriees d'oiseaux, <%c. par C. J. Temminck 
et M. Lavgier, §c. §c. §c. 2$ Livr. PI 134, Male adulie. 
Lake Falcon, Gen. Hist of Birds by «T. Latham, 3f. D. Second Edition, 1821, 
Vol L p. 164, n. 89. 
THE Falco Limnreetus is full two feet in length. Tlie bill is shorter than the 
head, strongly compressed, and regularly curved from the base to the apex, which 
