ijS PEREGRINE FALCON. Class II. 



48. P E R E- Belon av. 1 16. Ditto. Br. ZooL Tab. A *. 5. 



c R. 1 N £. Falco pcregrinus niger. Aldr. Sparviere pellegrino femmina. 



av. J. 239. Lorenzi a'v. Tab. 24. 



Blue backed falcon. Chnrl. Le Faucon pelerin. 5r//7o« «i;. 



Ex. 73, I. 341. Hijl. D'Oys. I. 249. 



Descrip. yp^ (j2e equal to the moor- buzzard : the bill 

 A ftrong, fhort, and very much hooked, armed 

 near the end of the upper mandible with a very 

 Iharp procefs : blue at the bafe, black at the point : 

 the irides dufky. 



The feathers on the forehead whitifh : the crown 

 of the head black mixed with blue : the hind part 

 of the neck black : the back, fcapulars, and coverts 

 ' of the wings, elegantly barred with deep blue and 

 black. The quil feathers dufky, marked with el- 

 liptical white fpots placed tranfverfe : the inner co- 

 verts crofied with black and white bars : the throat 

 white : the fore part of the neck, and upper part 

 of the bread white (lightly tinged with yellow, the 

 lafb marked with a few fmall dufky lines pointing 

 downwards. The reft of the bread, the belly, 

 thighs and vent feathers, white inclining to grey, 

 and crofTed with dufky ftrokes pointed in their 

 middle. The tail confifts of feathers of equal length, 

 finely and frequently barred with blue and black. 

 The legs (hort and yellow : the toes very long. 



This fpecies feems to vary : we have fcen one 



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