20. Hierax Eutolmos, Hodgs.
Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844 - H. bengalensis, apud Blyth J. A. S. B. XII. 180, and Bon. - Hoksf., Cat. 15 - Blytii, Cat., 78 - Tangpum Lepcha - Tingpum mepa, Bhot.
White-naped Pigmy Falcon.
Upper parts black, glossed with green ; wings and tail with the inner webs of the feathers with white spots; forehead, broad superciliary line extending to the nape, and sides of neck and breast, white ; chin, throat, abdomen, thigh coverts, vent, and under tail coverts, ferruginous. In some the ferruginous is more marked than in others, especially on the chin and throat.
Length 6 to 6 1/2 inches ; wing 4 to 4 1/2 ; tail 2 1/2; tarsus 3/4 ; mid toe and claw nearly 7/8.
This beautiful little Falcon is found in Nepal, Sikhim, Assam, and Arracan. Their habits are little known. They are said by the natives of the hills to seize small birds, and also insects. The stomach of the only one I procured at Darjeeling was empty. I have never heard that they are trained for hawking, and the bird alluded to by Captain Mundy, considered by Mr. Blyth, (J. A S., XL, 789,) to be one of these tiny Falcons, I have very little doubt was the, Dhuti, or male of the Besra Sparrow-hawk, all the birds of which kind are thrown from the hand, exactly as described by Mundy. Buchanan, however, mentions that a small hawk, which he calls Falco minutus, very little larger than a lark, was used for hawking by the Pangga Rajah in Rungpore.
II. melanoleucos, Blyth, from Assam, differs in the lower parts, including the thigh coverts, being entirely white. Other species are H. caerulescens of Java and Malayana; H. erytthrogenys, Vigors, from the Philippines ; and H. sericeus from China.
Harpagus, of S. America, has two teeth in the upper mandible, the tarsi are longer, and have large scales in front, and the wings are shorter. It may be said to lead the way to the short-winged hawks.
Gray's Zool. Misc. 1844 - H. bengalensis, apud Blyth J. A. S. B. XII. 180, and Bon. - Hoksf., Cat. 15 - Blytii, Cat., 78 - Tangpum Lepcha - Tingpum mepa, Bhot.
White-naped Pigmy Falcon.
Upper parts black, glossed with green ; wings and tail with the inner webs of the feathers with white spots; forehead, broad superciliary line extending to the nape, and sides of neck and breast, white ; chin, throat, abdomen, thigh coverts, vent, and under tail coverts, ferruginous. In some the ferruginous is more marked than in others, especially on the chin and throat.
Length 6 to 6 1/2 inches ; wing 4 to 4 1/2 ; tail 2 1/2; tarsus 3/4 ; mid toe and claw nearly 7/8.
This beautiful little Falcon is found in Nepal, Sikhim, Assam, and Arracan. Their habits are little known. They are said by the natives of the hills to seize small birds, and also insects. The stomach of the only one I procured at Darjeeling was empty. I have never heard that they are trained for hawking, and the bird alluded to by Captain Mundy, considered by Mr. Blyth, (J. A S., XL, 789,) to be one of these tiny Falcons, I have very little doubt was the, Dhuti, or male of the Besra Sparrow-hawk, all the birds of which kind are thrown from the hand, exactly as described by Mundy. Buchanan, however, mentions that a small hawk, which he calls Falco minutus, very little larger than a lark, was used for hawking by the Pangga Rajah in Rungpore.
II. melanoleucos, Blyth, from Assam, differs in the lower parts, including the thigh coverts, being entirely white. Other species are H. caerulescens of Java and Malayana; H. erytthrogenys, Vigors, from the Philippines ; and H. sericeus from China.
Harpagus, of S. America, has two teeth in the upper mandible, the tarsi are longer, and have large scales in front, and the wings are shorter. It may be said to lead the way to the short-winged hawks.
