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CATALOGUE. 
16. HI ERA X MELANOLEUCOS? Blyth 
Hierax melanoleucos, BlytJi^ J. A. S. B. XII. p. 179, Us; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. 8. B. p. 17. 
a, India. Donor unknown. 
" It is not generally known that these tiny Falcons (which weigh 
but a few ounces) are trained for hawking in the Upper Provinces 
of India, being flown at quails and other game of corresponding size, 
as I have been informed by different eye-witnesses of the sport, 
which is thus described in Captain Mundy's * Sketches of a Tour 
in India,' II. p. 25. * We had also some amusing sport with another 
kind of Falcon, a very small bird, perhaps barely so large as a thrush, 
and its prey was proportioned to its strength. It is flown at quails, 
sparrows, and others of the like calibre. The mode of starting it is 
different from that used with any other hawk. The falconer holds 
the little weU-drilled savage within the grasp of his hand, the head 
and tail protruding at either end, and the plumage carefully smoothed 
down. "When he arrives within twenty or thirty yards of the quarry, 
the sportsman throws his hawk, much as he would a cricket-ball, in 
the direction of it. The little creature gains his wings in an instant, 
and strikes his game after the manner of the Bhause' {Astur palum- 
(Blyth, J. A. S. B. XI. p. 789.) 
Genus Polihierax, Kaup (1847). 
17. POLIHIERAX SEMITORQUATUS, A. Smith, Sp. 
Falco semitorquatus, Smith, III. S. Afr- Zool. t. 1. 
Polihierax semitorquatus, Kaup. Bonap., C. O. Av. 
p. 26. 
Hypotriorchus semitorquatus, G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, 
III. App. p. 2. 
A. male. Abyssinia. From Sir W. Harris's Collection. 
Genus Falco, Linn., p. s. d. 
18. FALCO PEREGRINUS, Gmel. 
Falco peregrinus, Gmel., S. N. L. I. p. 272. Lath., 
Hist. I. p. 81. Bl. Enl. 430. Jerdon, Madr. J. 
L. S. X. p. 79. G. R. Gray, Gen. of Birds, I. p. 19 ; 
