BUZZARDET, AND LITTLE FALCON. an 



TJ*^ With dufky bill : head, cheeks, neck, breaft, and belly, white, 109. Buzzardet. 



marked with large brown fpots, more fparingly difperfed over 

 the breaft and belly : lefler coverts brown j the others colored like 

 the head : primaries duiky : thighs white, with fmall fagittal fpots 

 of brown : tail dufky, barred and tipt with white : legs yellow. 

 Length fifteen inches. It has much the habit of the Buzzard ; but 

 the legs in proportion are rather longer. 



In the LEVERIA^f Mufeum. Except in the almoft uniform color of 

 the tail, Mr. Latham's fpecies, p. 97, N" 83, agrees with this. 



Little Hawk, Catejby, \. e..— Latham, i. no, N° 04.. ..^ t 



Emerillon de Cayenne, Buffin, i. 291. — PI. Enl, N" 444. 

 Falco Sparveriusj Lin. Syji, 128. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



Male. 



Tp^ With bluifh bill, and yellow cere : crown of fine light grey, 

 with a red fpot in the middle ; on the hind part a femicircle 

 formed of round black fpots : cheeks white, bounded on each fide 

 with a large black fpot : throat white : breaft of a pale yellow, 

 fpotted with black : back of a brilliant bay, crofted by broad blaclc 

 bars : coverts of the wings of a beautiful grey, thinly fpotted with 

 black ; primaries black, fpotted on their inner webs with white : tail 

 long J the middle feathers barred near the end with a black band, 

 and tipt with white j the two exterior feathers white, crofted with 

 three or four black bars : legs yellow. 



Length eleven inches and a half. Weight only three ounces and - 



an half. This varies in color from the female, in the fame manner 

 as the European Keftrils. 



Thefe birds inhabit America, from Nova Scotia to the Antilles -, are Place, 



aftive and fpirited. They prey on fmall birds. Mice, Lizards, and 

 infeds. The Female is the following. 



E e 2 Emerillon 



