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PLATE 



III. 



THE BROWN HAWK. 



GENUS FALCO, LIN. SYST. 1 24. FALCON, PEN. GEN. BIRDS 1, 



SIZE, 



BILL, 



IRIDES, 



HEAD, 



COVERTS 

 SCAPULARS, 



thirteen inches from the top of the head to the 



end of the tail, 

 blue tipped with black, 

 yellow, 

 crown of the head, back, and coverts of tail, 



brown, 

 of the WINGS, brown edged with white, 

 brown fpotted with white. 



QUILL feathers, dufk.y, edged with pale brown. 



NECK, 



tail, 



LEGS, 

 PLACE, 



fore-part of the neck, the breast and belly, 

 white marked with numerous femi-circular 

 yellowifh ftrokes. 



pale brown, marked with four dufky lines. 



of a very pale yellow. 



CEYLON. From the collection of Governor 

 loten; who afTures me, the drawing was 

 very corredlly taken from the living bird. 



The plant is called manga domittica, or man- 

 GiFERA indica, LINN.; the fize is half as 

 large again as the figure. 



