DUBIOUS, AND DUSKY FALCON. arj 



flies in circles, and makes a great fhrieking. It forms its neft in a 

 rock, or fome hollow tree, with flicks and grafs ; and lines it with 

 feathers : and lays from two to four eggs, white, fpotted with red. In 

 Carolina it preys on Pigeons, and young of the wild Turkies. 



"C*^ With a dufky bill : yellow cere and irides : head duiky, ftreaked ,,2. Dubious. 



with ruft-color : back and coverts of wings brown, edged with 

 ruft ; the primaries duiky afh-color, barred with black, and the in- 

 ner webs marked tranfverfely with oval ferruginous fpots : tail long, 

 of a deep cinereous, with four broad bars of black : breaft and belly 

 dirty white, marked with oblong ftrcaks of brown : legs yellow. 



Length about ten inches. Weight fix ounces. In the marks and Sig^. 



colors of the tail it much refembles the Sparrow Hawk :. in the fpots 

 on the breaft it agrees with, the Englijh Merlin. 



Inhabits New Tork and Carolina. I have my doubts whether this Place.. 



is any more than a variety of the preceding, efpecially as the Englijh 

 Sparrow Hawk varies with the fame colors. 



"p* With a bluifh bill ; upper mandible armed with a fharp procefs ; 113. Dusev. 



yellow cere : head, back, and coverts of the wings, and tail, a 

 dufky brown, flightly edged with ferruginous : hind' part of the neck 

 fpotted with white : primaries dufky ; inner webs marked with oval ' 



fpots of a pale ruft-color : tail Jhort^ tipped with white, and barred 

 with four broad dufky ftrokes, and the fame number of narrow ones 

 of white : the hind part of the head fpotted with white : from the 

 chin to the tail whitifh, ftreaked downwards with diftinft lines of 

 black : legs deep yellow. 



Inferior in. fize to the laft. Inhabits the province oiNew Torh\ Siz-e, a^d Placid- 

 Bju,. Mus.. 



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