Gyhfalco. birds. ACCIPITRES. 51 



14. G. candlcans. — Plumage vvliite, with dusky lines or spots. 



G^tMco, Wm. Orn. 44. Sibb. Scot. 14. Penn. Brit. ZooL 1. 177 T. 



rusticoliis and fiiscus, Fab. Fauna Gr. 55 Falco Islandicus, Temm. Orn. 



1. 17 — W^ Hebog cliwjldro — In Scotland rare; Aberdeen, Pennant; 

 Orkney'', Low. 



Lenrth 1 foot 10 inches. Bill, cere, and feet yellow, more or less tinged 

 with blue. The dark spots on the wings are large. The throat and long 

 thigh-feathers pure white ; the rest of the plumage below white, with narrow 

 dusky stripes. The tail, consisting of 12 feathers, has dark bands, from 12 to 

 14 in number, and is longer than the wangs. The female has the dusky mark- 

 ings larger and more numerous on the under side. Breeds in rocks, and lays 

 from 3 to 5 sjiotted eggs of the size of a ptarmigan. The young birds have 

 the ground of the plumage dusky, edged and spotted with, white, v,'ith the 

 cere and margin of the eye bluish.— Feeds on birds, darting down upon them 

 like an aiTov/ — The Spotted Falcon of Pennant, Brit. ZooL i. 189., seems to 

 be a young bird of this species. 



Gen. VIII. BALBUSARDUS, (Pandion of Savigmj), 

 OspREY. — Outer toe capable of having its position and 

 motion reversed, and having a larger claw than the inner 

 toe. 



15. B. Halicetus. — Wings longer than the tail. Tarsi short, 

 thick, and reticulated. 



Balbusardus, Will. Orn. 3?. Sibh. Scot. 15.- Osprey, Pen w. Brit. Zool. i. 



174 — Falco HaL Temm. Orn. i. 47 — W, Pysg Eryr, Gwalch y weilgi; 



G, lolair uisge. — Frequents the margins of large rivers and lakes. 

 Length 23, breadth 04 inches ; weight 62 ounces ; bill black, cere and legs 

 blue, irides yellow. The plumage a])ove is brown ; the feathers on the head 

 edged with white ; hind head v/hite. Below, it is white. Beneath the eye is 

 a band of brown, reaching almost to the shoulder. Quills, about 28 ; those 

 from the 17th to the base, pointed ; inner webs of the four first abbreviated 

 at the extremity. Tail of 12 equal feathers ; the two middle ones dusky ; the 

 others barred with brown and white. Tibite long. Soles of the feet very 

 rough. _ Montagu states (Sup. Orn. Diet.), tliat, " on the inner side of the 

 extremity of the outer toe are tAvo or three spines." Breeds on the ground, 

 among reeds, or on trees. Eggs 3 or 4, M'hite and elliptical. Young with the 

 feathers on the breast yellow, with dusky or brown spots.—Feeds on fish 

 chiefly, darting upon them in the water. 



Gen. IX. MILVUS. KixE.—Tarsi plated, short. 



16. M. -vulgaris. — Plumage, above, deep brown, with pale 

 edges ; beneath, ferruginous, with dark longitudinal stripes. 



W\ll. Orn. 41. S\hb. Scot. 15. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. 185 Falco milvus, 



Temm. Orn. i. 59 — IF, Barcud; G, Clamhan gabhbch, Cromanloch.r 

 aidli — Wooded situations, but not common. 

 Length 28, breadth G4 inches ; weight 44 ounces. Bill yellowish, v/ith a 

 dusky tip ; cere and irides yellow. The feathers on the head are light-coloured. 

 With a dark streak on the shafts. QuiHs 24 ; inner webs of the first four, and 

 oiiterwebs of the tliird and fourth, abbreviated; black at the extremities. 

 Two outer tail-feathers more produced, and darker than the others. The 

 Semnle has the brown and pale edges of the feathers more distinct, the latter 

 passing into wliite. Breeds in trees, making a nest of sticks, lipxed with wooL 



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