232 A Description of the Birds 
Stirps. FALCONINA. (FALCONS.) 
Rostrum breve & basi aduncum ; ale longe ; remex secunda 
longissima. 
Beak short, hooked from the base ; wings long; the second . 
quill feather longest. 
Genus. FALCO Auctorum. FALCON. 
Rostrum breve; mandibula || Beak short, the upper man- 
superior fortiter dentata, infe- | dible strongly dentate, the 
riore emarginata. Acrotarsia | underemarginate. Acrotarsia 
reticulata. Remex  secunda | reticulated. Wings with the 
longissima, prima et secunda || second quill longest, the first 
prope apicem interne fortiter || and second strongly emargi- 
emarginata. nate internally near the tip. 
Fatco FRoNTALIS. Daud. 
Falco galericulatus, Shaw, vol.7, p. 149.—Le Faucon Huppe, 
Le Vaillant, Ois d@ Afrig. pl. 28. 
F. cristatus, crista brunnea, dorsum plumbeum et plume li- 
neis longitudinalibus nigris ; subtus albo, flavescens et fasciis 
brunneo nigris transversis notatus ; cauda grisea, nigro fasciata, 
Male.—Bill bluish at base, and black at tip; cere yellow; 
eyes orange yellow; head crested, the latter of a brownish 
color ; behind the angle of the mouth on each side a longitu- 
dinal blackish brown streak or blotch; black bluish gray, the 
feathers each with a dark streak in the course of the vane, 
and with transverse dusky bands, besides light bluish white 
edgings and tips; sides of neck dirty white, with a slight 
tinge of tawny; chin and throat tawny white; breast and 
belly the same, and crossed by narrow black bands, as are 
also the feathers of the thighs. Primary quill feathers black- 
ish ; secondaries deep bluish gray, with blackish transverse 
bands, and all broadly tipt with the same color as the back. 
Tail grayish, with seven or eight transverse narrow black. 
bands, and all the feathers tipt with light grayish white ; legs 
and toes yellowish; claws black. Size that of the common 
pigeon. ° 
Female.—Crest shorter than that of the male, and her size 
nearly a fourth larger. 
Young.—All the colors exhibit somewhat of a yellowish 
tinge, and the dirty white of the chin, throat, and breast is 
variegated with red and grayish brown; the crest does not 
appear till some months after it leaves the nest. 
This bird inhabits the borders of lakes, the sea shore, and 
the banks of rivers abounding with fish ; which last, together 
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