Class 11. GENTIL FALCON. iSi 



Gentil Falcon. Wil. orn. 80. Lin.fyfi. 126. $0- Gentil, 



Raiifyn. a^v. Falk. Faun. Suec, Ip. 58. 

 Falco gentilis. F. cere pedi- Kram, Auftr. -^2%. 



busque flavis, corpore cine- Falco gentilis. Brun. No. 6. 



reomaculisfufcis, Cauda fuf- Scopoliy No. 3. 



cis quatuor nigricantibus. L'Autour. ////.</'Ojj. i. 230. 



THIS fpccies of an elegant make is larger than 

 the golhawk. Cere, and legs yellow ; irides 

 light yellow : pupil large and of a full black : head 

 light ruft color, with oblong black fpots : whole 

 under fide from chin to tail white, tinged with 

 yellow : each feather marked with heartfhaped 

 dufky fpots pointing down : back brown : quil 

 feathers dufl^y ; barred on the out-moft web with 

 black, on the lower part of the inner with white. 

 * Coverts of the wings, and the fcapulars, brown 

 edged with ruft color : wings reach only one half 

 the length of the tail. The tail barred with four 

 or five bars of black, and the fame of cinereous : 

 the firft edged above and below with a line of dull 

 white. The very tips, all the tail feathers white. 

 The young birds vary in having on their breafts 

 tranfverfe bars inftead of cordated fpots, as in the 

 fpecimen, Plate 



This fpecies inhabits the north Oi Scotland-, and 

 was in high efteem as a bold and fpirited bird in 

 the days of falconry. It makes its neft in rocks. 



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