G E N T I L FALCON. 



primaries dufky, with tranfverfe oval white fpots : the throat, chiji, 

 and breaft, of a pure white, the laft marked with a few dufl<.v lines 

 pointing down : the belJy white, crofled with numerous duCky bars, 

 pointed in the middle : legs yellow : toes very long. 



The American fpecies is larger than the European. They are fub- 

 je£b to vary. The black Falcon, and the fpotted Falcon of Mr. 

 Edwards, are of this kind ; each preferve a fpecific mark, in tlie 

 black ftroke which drops from beneath the eyes, down towards tlic 

 neck. The differences in the marks in the tail may poffibly pro- 

 ceed from the different ages of the birds ; for few kinds differ fo 

 much in the feveral periods of life as the Rapacious. 



Inhabits different parts o? North America, from Hudfon's Bay as low 

 as Carolina. In Afia, is found on the higheft parts of the Uralian 

 and Sibirian chain. Wanders in fummer to the very Ardtic circle. 

 Is common in Kamtfchatka, 



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Gentil Falcon, Br. Zoal. i. N" 50. 



F. Gentilis. Falk. Fau», Suec. N° ^2, — Latham, i. 64.— Lev. Mus. 



98. Gentil^ 



|-\ With a dufky bill : yellow cere, irides, and legs : head and 

 ■^ * upper fide of the neck ferruginous, ftreaked with black : under 

 fide, from chin to tail, white, marked with dufky heart-fliaped fpots : 

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

 primaries dufky, barred on the exterior fide with black : wings reach 

 only half the length of the tail: tail long, barred with four or five 

 broad bands of black cinereous ; each of the firft bounded by a nar- 

 row line of dirty white. 



In fize fuperior to the European kind, being two feet two inches 

 Jong. Shot in the province of New Tork. Is found in northern 

 Europe, as far as Finmark *. 



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