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gantly variegated with numerous fmall fpots of black on a grey 

 ground ; the throat whitifii ; the back and cover-feathers of the 

 wings of a yellowifh red or nifty brown, punctated with black 

 towards the ends ; the breaft variegated with linear, and the 

 belly with oval, black fpots on a yellowifh-red ground ; the 

 thighs of the fame colour, with fewer fpots of black ; the legs 

 moftly naked and yellow ; the fail-feathers brown, in number 

 twenty-two ; the train hoary, with a broad black fillet towards 

 the end, which is roundifh. 





7. The Sparro-iv-Hawk (k) is the moft common Falcon we 

 have. -It is of the fize of a fmall pigeon. The upper plumage 

 is of a dufky brown, with a few white fpots on the wings ; the 

 under part of the neck, the breaft, and belly, white, variegated 

 with a dark brown in tranfverfe wavy lines ; the train brown, 

 with five tranfverfe bars or fillets of black, the wings extending 

 only to the middle of it. It builds in the hollows of inacceffiblc 

 rocks {haded with brufhwood. It lays four eggs, white, with a 

 zone or circle of red fpots at the obtufe end., It is a Falcon of 

 great fpirit. It is very deftructive to partridges, and the fmaller 

 birds. 



8. The Falcon, called the Merlin (IJ, is frequent in woods, 

 where it breeds. It is not much larger than a blackbird. The 



(k) Accipiter fringillaTius. Belkn. Icon. 19. 6. 



. f. recentiorum Nifus & Sparverius. Will. Orn. p. 51. t. 5. 



Raj. Av. p. 18. n. 2. 



Falco cera viriJi ; pedibus flavis 5 pe&ore albo undulis tranfverfis fufcis ; cauda fufca ni- 

 gricamibus. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 23. n. 68. 



(1) jEfalo. Cbarltt. Av. p. 77. n. 5. Smerillus. Turn. Av. 



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