25 - FALCON. 



RED-THROAT- Red-throated Falcon, Gift. Sj/i. i. p. 97. N" 82, 



ED F. 

 Female. T ENGTH one foot eleven inches. Bill one inch and a half 



long J yellow, with the bafe and cere dufky : eyelids fur- 

 nifhed with ftrong black lafhes : throat and fides of the head very 

 bare of feathers, fprinkled only with narrow ones almoft like 

 hairs : the fkin of a dirty purple : the general colour of the plu- 

 mage gloflTy blue, changing to a greenifh black, except the lower 

 " belly and thighs, which are white: the tail is ten inches in 



length, even at the end : legs yellow : claws black. 



This, I make no doubt, is the fame with that defcribed in my 

 Synopj^s ; but as the one here mentioned is at leaft five inches 

 longer, we may fijppofe it to be the female. It came under my 

 infpeflion among a colleflion of birds brought from Cayenne. 



85. Sparrow Hawk, Gen. Sjn. 1. p. 99. N° 85. — ArSl. Zool. ii. p, 226. N. 



'T^HIS is found as high as Sondmor, and in the Ferroe IJlands t 

 in the fouth o^ RnJJia, but not in Sibiria * : feems fpread al- 

 moft throughout the old continent, from the above-named 

 places to the Cape of Good Hope -, and perhaps extends to China 

 likewife, as we have obferved a bird among fome Chinefe draw- 

 ings fo exaftly like as to appear as a mere variety, not more dif- 

 fering than individuals of this fpecies do from each other in this 

 climate. 



This bird builds in various manners and places : often in the 

 deferted nefts of other birds ; alfo in pollard trees, and among 



rs(ks 



