I2l2 GENTIL FALCON. 



very slight appearance of the tooth-like process oil 

 each side, so conspicuous in many of the Accipi- 

 trine tribe; but this I consider as a very uncertain 

 criterion; since in the best and most authentic 

 figures and descriptions of the Jerfaloon, the notch 

 in the bill is often very conspicuous; not to men- 

 tion, that Mr. Pennant in his Arctic Zoology 

 expressly describes the upper mandible as " sharp- 

 ly angulated on the lower edges" 



GENTIL FALCON. 



Falco Gentilis. F. fuscus, ferrugineo undulatus, subtus albo- 



Jiavescens maculis subcordatis fuscis, cauda fasciis quatuor 



nigricarttibus. 

 Brown Falcon with ferruginous undulations, beneath yellowish- 



white v/ith subcordate brown spots, the tail crossed by four 



blackish bars. 

 Falco gentilis. F. cerapedibusqueflavis, corpore cinereo maculis 



fuscis, cauda fasciis quatuor nigricantibus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Falco montanus ? Rail. syn. p. 13. 

 Falcon gentle. Will. orn. p. JQ. 

 Gentil Falcon. Perm. Brit. Zool. p. 154. pi. 2i. Lath, syn, 



1 . p. 64. 

 Faucon Gentil. Daudin orn. p. 102. 



This is described as a degree larger than the 

 Goshawk; with the head brown- ferruginous, mark- 

 ed with oblong black spots, the upper part of the 

 body and wings brown, each feather tipped with 

 ferruginous; the under parts whitish, with brown 

 spots and dashes, which in the young or yearling 



