GUIANA FALCON. 191 



described as a supposed variety of the Kestril, 

 under the title of Lead-coloured Kestril, may 

 perhaps belong to the present species. 



GUIANA FALCON. 



Falco superciliosus. F. cera pedibus palpebri$que luteis, corpore 



fusco albido undulato, remigibus ferrugintis nigro fasciatis. 



Lin. Syst. KaL 

 Falcon with luteous cere, eyelids, and legs, brown body with 



whitish undulations, and ferruginous wing-feathers banded 



with black. 

 Guiana Falcon. Lath. syn. 



It is, according to Linnaeus, of the size of a 

 Magpie, with the body brown above, the lower 

 parts and thighs thickly undulated with black: the 

 wing-feathers ferruginous with several black bars, 

 but the secondaries are whitish on their hinder 

 edges : the tail is black, with two broad cinereous 

 bars, and is also cinereous at the tip : the vent is 

 white with black variegations: the eye-brows naked 

 beneath and prominent: the lores or spaces be- 

 tween the bill and eye beset with black spreading 

 bristles : the bill and legs black : the under wing- 

 coverts white, with very fine black lines. Native 

 of South America. 



