FALCON. 



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114. 



PLUMBEOUS F. 



T EN GTH thirteen -inches and a half. Plumage on the upper description. 



parts lead-colour : round the eye fomewhat bare: wings and 

 tail darkeft; the laft fix inches in length, and nearly black, croflTed 

 near the bafe and the middle with two narrow lines of white, butj 

 except the two middle ones, only on the inner webs ; beneath 

 white, tranfverfely marked with narrow alh-coloured bars : chin 

 pale cinereous white : juft round the eye bare of feathers ; be- 

 tween the legs white : legs long and yellow. 



Inhabus Ca^enm-, • Flace, 



Dubious Falcon, Ar£l. Zool. li, N? 1 1 2. . n - . 



DUBIOUS F. 



T EN GTH ten inches : weight fix ounces. Bill dulky : cere Descrim-xon, 



and irides- yellow : head dufky, ftreaked with ruft-colour; 



back and wing coverts brown, edged with ruft: primaries dufky 



afH-colour, barred with black, the inner webs marked tranfverfely 



with oval ferruginous fpots : breaft and belly dirty white, marked 



with oblong ftreaks of brown, not unlike the Englijh Merlin : tail 



longi of a deep cinereous, croffed with four bars of black, refem- 



hVwg that of the Sparrow-Hawk. 



Inhabits New Terk and CarjoUna : not improbably a variety of' Plac^*-. 



the Pigeon-Hawk *. 



* Ara. Zool. — It is alfo greatly fimilar to my American Bronun Hmvk„~ Syn,'u - 



p. 98.. N" 84.. 



Duiky 



