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English: Two falconets from Java. Labelled Falco caerulescens , these birds are now classified as Microhierax fringillarius .
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Source Plate 35 in Horsfield, Thomas (1824). Zoological researches in Java, and the neighbouring islands .
Author A. Pelletier (illustrator); C. [Charles Joseph] Hullmandel (lithographer)

Vigors mentioned this illustration when proposing the new genus Ierax or Hierax . Thus this plate and Horsfield's accompanying description form the type of the genus that is now called Microhierax .

Scan contributed by Smithsonian Libraries to Archive.org and Biodiversity Heritage Library. (BHL also holds a copy from the National Library Board of Singapore.)

Unmodified download from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31111887#page/288/

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