212 LITTLE, AND PIGEON FALCON. 



Emerillon de St. Domingue, De Buffon, i. 29 1 ,—PL EhI. N' 465. — Latbantt i, t Hi; 

 N" 95. — Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



XT With a fhort and very crooked bill : crown of a deep flaty 

 blue, obfcurely fpotted with red : hind part of the neck, back, 

 and tail, of a bright ferruginous color and black, elegantly difpofed 

 in narrow tranfverfe bars : coverts of the wings of the fame colors j 

 primaries black : under fide of the neck, breaft, and belly, of a 

 dirty white, marked with large ferruginous fpots : thighs and veirt 

 feathers white : legs long, flender^ and orange-colored : tail long, 

 crofled with eleven black, and the fame number of bright ferrugi- 

 nous bars. 



The New York Merlin of Mr. Latham, i. 107, N' 94, bears fo 

 great a refemblance to this, that I do not venture to feparate them.. 



III. PiCEOK. Pigeon Hawk, Cattjly, 1. 3. — Phil. Tranf. Ixii. '^Zz,— Latham, 1. loi^ 



Fako Columbarius, Lin, Syjl. 128.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



T7 With a dufky bill, and yellow cere : crown, back, and coverts 

 * of the wings and rump, of a bluifli grey, with the middle of 

 each feather ftreaked with black t the hind part of the head fpotted 

 with reddifli white : cheeks and under fide of the body white, with 

 large oblong fpots of black : primaries and fecondaries duflcy ; their 

 infides marked with great oval fpots of white : tail long; black tipt 

 with white, and crofled with four bars of bluifli grey: legs yellow. 



Size. jts length is from ten to twelve inches. The weight fix ounces. 



PiACK. It inhabits America, from Hudfon's Bay as low as South Carolinai 



In the laft it attains to a larger fize. In HudJorCs Bay it appears in 

 May on the banks oi Severn river, breeds, and retires fouth in au- 

 tumn. It feeds on finall birds ; and on the approach of a.ay perfonj 



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