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cere blue: throat white spotted with brown : parts 

 above brown > the feathers spotted and edged with 

 ferruginous; the spots not touching the shafts: 

 beneath white, with longitudinal dark-brown spots : 

 quill-feathers black-brown; margins and ends of 

 the prime oris white^ trans versly spotted within 

 with pale ferruginous: smaller quill-feathers mark- 

 ed with round spots on the outside. Inhabits 

 the northern parts of America, and is called at 

 Hudson's Bay by the name of Speckled Partridge* 

 Hawk. 



10. Spotted Falcon. This, which is described 

 and figured in the British Zoology, is of the size 

 of a Buzzard, with a black bill, and yellow cere 

 and legs: irides pale yellow: crown and hind part 

 of the neck white, spotted with light reddish brown : 

 back and scapulars of the same colour, edged with 

 white: quill-feathers dusky, edged with ash-colour: 

 under side of the neck, breast, belly, and thighs, 

 white; the first, as well as the beginning of the 

 breast, marked with a few rusty spots: rump white : 

 middle tail-feathers marked by pretty numerous 

 bars of white and deep brown; the rest with a 

 lighter and darker brown : legs very strong. Two 

 of these birds were shot near Longnor in Shrop- 

 shire. 



