3i 



FALCON. 



104. 



JOHANNA F. 



Desceiptiow. CIZE uncertain. Blllblackj bafe of the under mandible yel- 

 low : head, neck, and under parts of the body, ferruginous, 

 marked with black linear fpots : quills and tail black brown ; 

 the laft cuneiform in (hape; its coverts whirifh : legs yellow. 

 Pt-ACE. Inhabits India, the ifland of Johanna. The defcription taken 



froni a manufcript in the pofleffion of the late Dr. Fothergill. 



MADAGASCAR L'Autour a ventre raye de Madagafcar, Son. Voy, Ind. ii. p. loi. pi. 103. 

 F. 



Description. QIZE of a Pheafant. Bill black, curved from the bafe : the 



eye furrounded with a naked yellow fkin, reaching from the 



bafe of the bill to the hind head ; irides yellow: the top of the 



head, fieck, back, and wing coverts, pale cinereous grey j the 



larger coverts marked with black near the tips : quills white, 



within halfway from the bafe barred with dufky black, the end 



half black: under part of the wings ftriated white and black : 



breaft, belly, and rump, white, marked with curved black bands : 



tail black, crofled about the middle with a band of white dotted 



with black : legs yellow. 



Place. Inhabits Madagafcar, where it is called by the French Aigle 



raye. The manners are not faid -, tut, from the bill being lefs 



hooked in the plate than mentioned in the defcription, from the 



fides of the head being fo very bare, and the claws very little 



hooked, I have my fufpicions of its rather belonging to the Vul' 



tare genus, than that of the Falcon. 



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