422 GYR, AND COLLARED FALCON. 



leaving the white the far prevaling color. There are inftances, but 



rare, of its being found entirely white. In fome, the whole tail is 



crofled by remote bars of black or brown ; in others, they appear 



only very faintly on the middle feathers : the feathers of the thighs 



are very long, and unfpotted.: the legs ftrong, and of a light blue. 



Size; Its weight forty-five ounces Troy: length near two" feet: extent 



Place, four feet two. Of the fame manners and haunts with the former. 



Is very frequent in Iceland; is found in Lapmark *, and Norway f ; 



and rarely in the Orknies, and North Britain. In Afia, it dwells in the 



highell points of the Urallian and other Sibirian mountains, and 



dares the coldefl: climates throughout the year. It is kept, in the la- 



Vert hardy, titude of Peterjburg, uninjured in the open air during the fevered 



winters, when the Peregrine Falcon, N° 97, lofes its claws by the froft. 



Mr, Hutchins J has often obferved it about Albany fort, where it 

 appears in May^ and retires before winter. It feeds on the white, 

 and other Grous. This Ipecies ought to be added to the American 

 clafs. 



This fpecies Is pre-eminent in courage as well as beauty, and is 

 the terror of other Hawks. It was flown at all kinds of fowl, how great 

 foever they were -, but its chief game ufed to be Herons and Cranes. 



S. C01.LARED. Falco Rufticoks, Liu, Syji. 125. — Faua. Suec. N" 56. — Faun. Grosnl. 

 N° 34. — Latham, i. 56. 



17 With a lead-colored bill, tipt with black : head broad and 



flat, ftreaked lengthways with black and white ; on the cheeks 



the white predominates : the throat, under fide of the neck, and 



* Leems, 235. f ^trom. 



X At the time this flieet was printing, I had the good fortune to meet with Mr. 

 Hutchins, furgson, a gentleman many years refident in Hudfon's Bay % who, with the 

 utmoft liberality, communicated to me his MS. obfervations, in a large folio volume: 

 in every page of which his e^Uenfive knowlege appears. The benefit which this work 

 ■will, from thfi prelent page, receive, is here once for all gratefully acknowleged. 



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