FALCON. 



3J 



CIZE large, and of a very flout make: length two feet or 

 more. Bill blue at the bafe, black at the tip : irides pale yel- 

 low : general colour of the plumage deep brown •; before the 

 eyes marked with white : the head feathers are fomewhat elon- ' 

 gated, but fcarcely fo much as to be called a crefi : wing coverts 

 marked with fmall white fpots : quills darker than the reft of the 

 plumage : tail the fame, crofTed in the middle with a bar of white 

 about an inch and a half broad : thighs and belly of a paler 

 brown than the upper parts ; the firft marked with a few white 

 fpots, the lafl plain : legs of a pale yellow, fcaly : claws black. 



Inhabits India, where it is not uncommon : known there by the 

 name of Cheela *. 



T ENGTH nineteen inches. Bill black-brown j cere yellow : 

 head and neck rufous, each feather dafhed with brown j 

 throat and behind the eyes marked with narrow ftripes of black : 

 back and rump brown : fcapulars clouded, cinereous-grey barred 

 with brown : chin pale rufous yellow : under parts of the body 

 dirty white, crofTed with numerous bars of alh-colour : feathers 

 on the fides of the tail black and white mixed : tail feven inches 

 long, the four middle feathers crofTed with a buff-coloured bar 

 an inch and a half from the end ; the others marked with five or 

 fix of the fame, the tips alfo buff-coloured : quills cf^am-colour, 

 barred with narrow black lines, the ends blackifh ; fecondaries 

 the fame, but barred only on the inner webs. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



* Mr. MiddUtoit. 



106. 

 CHEELA F. 



Descriptioh, 



Place. 



107. 



RUFOUS- 



HEADED F. 



DfiSCRIPTION* 



'LACE. 



^ako. 



