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you advance to the northward. About Jaulnah, it is very numerous. 
It frequents topes as well as the open country, where it may be seen 
seated on low trees and bushes, an ant-hill, or the banks of rivers, 
whence it pounces on mice, lizards, small snakes, and various large 
insects and their larv83. Mr. Elliot, in his * Notes,' says, * It is said 
to be fond of crabs. It certainly does not refuse them. I saw a 
Parsee catch one directly by baiting his springes or nooses with a 
crab.' 
The flight of the Teesa is tolerably rapid, performed by repeated 
strokes of the wings, exactly like that of the Kestril, for which at a 
distance I have occasionally mistaken it. Its flight too in general is 
low. I have seen it several times take a much more extended flight 
than usual over a rumna, flying at a low elevation, and now and then 
rising slowly a few feet, and I observed it apparently capture a 
locust or some other insect on the wing." — (Madr, Journ. L. S. 
X. p. 77.) 
Genus Astur, Lacep., Mem. de Vlnst III. p. 506 (1806). 
D^DALiON, Sav., Des. de VEgyp. H. JST. p. 92 (1809). 
Letjcospiza et Lophospiza, Kaup, Class, der Scsug. und 
Voeg. p. 118 (1844). 
51. ASTUR PALUMBABIUS, Linn. Sp. 
Falco palumbarius, Linn. S. AT. I. p. 130. Lath., Hist. 
I. p. 106. 
Astur palumbarius, BecJcst., A^. G. DeutscM. II. p. 268. 
Gould J Birds Eur. t. 17. G. M. Gray, Gen. Birds, 
I. p. 27 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 63. Hodgs,, Cat. 
B. Nep. p. 47. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. 
p. 23. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 31. 
Falco gallinarius, Gmel, S. JV. L. I. p. 266. 
Accipiter astur, Ball., Zoogr. t. 11. 
The Goshawk, Lath. 
Baz or Baz Khani, female, Jukea, male. Hind., Blyth. 
Shahbaz ("hawk king"), Scinde, Burton. 
Bhatjse, Mundy. 
a. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
b. Nepal. Presented by the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 
c. d. e. Drawings. King of Tanj ore's. From J. Torin, Esq. 
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