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blackish spots*: the cere, irides, and legs are 

 yellow: the bill cinereous blue, and the claws black. 

 The above is the description given by Monsieur 

 Sonnini, who observes, that the Stone-Falcon, 

 though an European bird, seems to be but imper- 

 fectly known. 



MOUNTAIN FALCON. 



Falco montanus. F. pedibus luteis, corpore supra exfusco cinereo, 

 gula juguloque albidis, maculatis, caudce basi cinerea } medio 

 nigricante, apice albo. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 



Falcon with yellow legs, body above brown-cinereous, throat 

 white and spotted, tail grey at the base, blackish in the 

 middle, and white at the tip. 



Falco montanus. Raii. av.p. 13. Briss. orn. 



Mountain Falcon. Will. orn. Lath. syn. 



This is said to be less than the Peregrine Falcon, 

 but with a shorter tail: the throat spotted some- 

 times with black or ferruginous, and sometimes 

 entirely black. Mr. Latham observes, after Brisson, 

 that when the bird has arrived at its full colours 

 the head is black. Brisson thinks it probable that 

 it may be a variety of the Stone-Falcon, and like- 

 wise mentions another variety of a cinereous colour 

 above, paler on the wing-coverts, and beneath en- 

 tirely white. 



* Mr. Latham describes the tail as barred transversly with 

 black, except on tbe two middle feathers. 



