5 FALCON, 



vent, white : tail pale brown, croffed with narrow indiftincl: whitff 

 bars. 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits /«<://<?, and is called 5f/5'rd'^ *;.- 



M3- , ]?s.\cofa{cas. Faun. Groea. N" ^/\..h. 



GREENLANI)' ^^^^^ Falcon, Cra^tz, i. 78.— ^^^^^,.64. 



Du&y F. jiriS. Zool, ii. p. azo. E. 



JPsscriptiont T ess thaa the Collared Falcon, Cere and legs lead'-colburi: 

 irides dufky: crown brown, fpotted" with white: nape and 

 throat white : breaft and belly yellowiih white, ftreaked down- 

 wards with dufky : back dufky, -.inged with blue ; the ends of 

 the feathers lighteft, and fprinkled over with a few white fpots, 

 efpecially towards. the, rump : tail dulky, croITedvery faintly w"ith 

 paler bars ; the under llde whitifh : the- tail of the young is black, 

 with great brown fpots on the exterior webs, 

 ■frc,iCE. This fpecies inhabits Gre(?«/tf»i throughout, and is feen on the 



I Ice IJlands remote from (hore. In the breeding feafon retires in- 



' land: lays from three to five fpotted eggs : preys on various 

 birds, darting on them like an arrow out of a bow; and gives bat- 

 tle to the Raven, but feldom proves vidloriouSj as^ the lafl, by its 

 fcreams, brings together others to its aid, which in concert drive 

 off the enemy. The fiefh is fometimes, though rarely, eaterr. 

 The fkins ufed for garments. \t 2i\k> 'wihsb'm Iceland', 



Fahricius thinks this bird to be a variety- or young of the CoAt 

 tared Falcon f. — In the ArSiic Zcology it«is confidered as a diftind:. 

 fpecies. „;, 



*-Mt. MiMeton. f Vol. i. p. .56, . 



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