NATCRAL1STS CABINET. 



Description. 



the charge with undaunted intrepidity: I have 

 also known him kill a fowl five or six times as 

 big as himself." It appears from other writers 

 of respectability, that this bird may be trained 

 to hunt quails and partridges. 



The female generally builds in hollow trees, 

 high rocks, or lofty ruins; sometimes, however, 

 she is contented with the old nest of a crow: she 

 generally lays four or five eggs, which, at the 

 broad end, are spotted with a sort of red circle, 

 in specks of a pretty deep colour. 



THE CHANTING FALCON. 



THIS species which has been recently disco- 

 vered in Caffraria, and some of tlie adjacent 

 countries, js about the size of the common fal- 

 con. The plumage is in general of a pale lead 

 or dove-colour, with the top of the head and thp 

 scapulars inclining to brown. The under parts 

 of the breast are of a pearly grey, barred with 

 numerous grey stripes. The quills are black. 

 The tail is wedge-shaped, the outer feathers oqe- 

 third shorter than the middle ones, and the tip 

 white. The bill and claws are black, and the legs 

 orange. It chiefly subsists by rapine, and is par- 

 ticularly destructive to partridges, hares, quails, 

 rats, moles, and other small animals. 



The female generally forms her nest between 

 the forks of trees, oc in bushy groves, where she 



