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SWALLOW-TAILED- FALCON. 



dulky : vent feathers white : tip of the tail white ; then fucceeds a- 

 broad dufky bar ; the remaining part barred with brown, tawny, and' 

 black : legs long, and very {lender. 

 Size. Is of an elegant fornrij and about the fize of the Ringtail. 



Place; Inhabits the province oi New York : appears at approach of win- 



ter, and retires in the fpring. Bl. Mus. 



Mr. Latham's northern Falcon, N° 62,, feems to differ frona thi& 

 only in age, or fex. 



108. Swallow- Hirundo maxima Peruviana, avis prjedatoris calcaribus inftrufta, Feuillee voj^ 



TAILED. Peru, torn. ii. 33. 



Herring, or Swallow-tailed Hawk, Laiufon, 138. — Briciell, 175. — Catejhy, i. 4.^ 

 Le Melan de la Caroline, Brijfon, i. 418. — De Buffon, i. 221. 

 Falco Furcatus, Lin, Syft. 129. — Latham, i. 60. — Lev, Mus. 



p With a black bill, lefs hooked than ufual with- rapacious birds;, 

 bafe of the bill hid in feathers, and briftly : the eyes large ; 

 irides red : head, neck, breaft, and belly, of a fnowy whitenefs : back, 

 coverts of wings, and fcapulars, black, glofled with purple and 

 crreen : inner webs of the primaries and fecondaries white towards 

 their bafe ; the tertials white : tail of the fame color with the back ;. 

 and moft extremely forked ; the outmoft feather above eight inches, 

 longer than the middlemoft : the legs yellow.. 

 Place. This moft elegant fpecies inhabits only the fouthern parts ofNorth- 



America ; and that only during fummer. Like Swallows, they feed, 

 chiefly flying; for they are much on wing, and prey on various forts, 

 of infedts. They alfo feed on Lizards and Serpents ; and will kill 

 the largeft of the regions it frequents with the utmoft eafe. They 

 quit North America before winter. We are not acquainted with their 

 retreat. It probably is in Peru .* at left we have the proof of one 

 being taken in the South-fea, off the coall which lies between Tlo 

 and Arica, in about the latitude 23 fouth, on September iith, by the 

 reverend the Father Louis Feuillee *. 



• Journal ^es Ob/erv, i^c> vol. ii. 33« 



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