with interrupted bars of white; thefe bars are produced from
each feather being of this ferruginous colour, with two or three
fpots of white on each fide the fhaft, which laft itfelf is brown :
the tail of a deep lead or alh-colour, croffed with four bars of
a ftill deeper colour; the outer feather is more inclined to
brown than the others; the tips of all are white: between the dark
bars, on the under part of the tail, the colour is nearly white j
the outer feather is neither barred above nor beneath on the outer
web: the under tail-coverts plain white : the legs are pretty
long, and of a yellowifh colour: claws brown.
Place. This was prefented to me as a native of North America, I
believe Hudfon's Bay. 1 cannot liken it to any one yet de-
fcribed.
63-
CRESTED
INDIAN
F.
Le Faucon hupe des Indes., Èrif. err,. î. p, 360. N° 12.
— Bnf. oif. i. p. 271, N° 4.
Falco Indicus Cirrhatus, Raii/yn. p. 14. N° i 2.
Crefted Indian Falcon, Will. ont. p. 82. N° 12.
D escription. g I Z E of a Gofhawk nearly. The bill dark blue t cere luteous:
irides yellow: parts above black: the top of the head is
rather flat, and adorned with a forked creft, which hangs downwards
: parts beneath ftriated black and white : the neck is fulvous
; and the tail tranfverfely banded with black and afh-co-
lour: the legs are luteous, and feathered to the toes: claws
black.
This inhabits the Eaft Indies.
Crefted
Crefted Falcon, Dillon's Trav, through Spain, p. So. t. 3.
“ tTnHIS curious bird,” fays Mr. Dillon, “ which is about the
fize of a Turkey, raifes his feathers on his head in the
form of a crefl:, and has a hooked b ill; the lower mandible rather
ftrait: his back, wings, and throat are black; the belly white:
the tail diftinguifhed by four cinereous and parallel ftripes, and is
an undefeript bird, not taken notice of by Linnaus
Baron Dillon, in the plate referred to above, fays that his
draught was taken from one of thefe alive, at the menagerie
at the royal palace of Buen Retiro, at Madrid, in the year 1778.
64.
CARACCA
F.
D escription.
Black and White Indian Falcon, Pen. Ind. Zool. t. i.
| ENGTH lixteen inches: weight ten ounces. Bill black: irides
reddifh yellow: orbits fpeckled with white: head, neck,
back, fcapulars, quills, and fome of the middle coverts of the
wings, black; the reft of the wings, body, and tail, pure white:
65.
BLACK and
WHITE
F.
D escription
legs yellow : claws black.
Inhabits Ceylon, and called by the Cingalefe, Kaloe koefo elgoya.
In Ceylon Hawks of feveral kinds are trained for falconry, but
whether this enters the lift is not certain.
* In the collection of drawings at Sir A* Lever's, there is one of this very
bird, faid to be taken from the life, and moft likely from the very fubjefl; which
differs not from M. Dillon's defeription, except in having the appearance of a
white collar on the neck. The bill, both in M. Dillon's as well as Sir A. Lever's
drawing, appears to be remarkably hooked, and different from that of the
Falcon genus.
Place.
M B I L L