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head was brown, spotted with yellow: the neck 

 encircled with a yellow-cinereous ring, interrupted 

 by two longitudinal black spots: the beak and 

 cere blue: the eyes bright and black; the border 

 of the upper eyelids yellowish; the upper part of 

 the body brown; the under yellow with lengthened 

 black spots: the rump pale rufous; the thighs 

 varied with black and yellow; the quill-feathers of 

 the wings black, with transverse yellowish-rufous 

 bands: the tail-feathers twelve in number, brown 

 above, and of a yellowish white beneath : the feet 

 naked and yellow, and the claws black. 



CHANTING FALCON. 



?alco musicus. F. canus, subtus fusco lindulatus, reinigibus 

 ?iigris, cauda cuneatafusca albofasciata. 



Grey Falcon with brown undulations beneath, black wing- 

 feathers, and brown cuneated tail barred with white. 



Le Faucon Chanteur. Levaill. av. afr.p. UJ. No. 27. 



Falco musicus. Daudin orn.p. II 6. 



Among the ferocious Falcon tribe we could 

 hardly expect to meet with a songster; the voice 

 of the general race of birds of prey being peculiarly 

 harsh and disagreeable. From the title however 

 by which the celebrated Monsieur Levaillant has 

 distinguished the present species, we might be led 

 to suppose that a Falcon existed which to great 

 elegance of plumage united a musical voice; since 

 it sings, according to this author, for hours to- 

 gether, while perched on the summit of a tree, near 



