FALCON. 



- 'j;[iQ female is {omcwhat bigger than the male : general colour 

 filvery grey : on the wing coverts are three round black fpots, and 

 three others on the outer webs of the fecond quills : prinnaries 

 black: fides of the belly, thighs, and vent, white; tranfverQy 

 ftriated with a rufous red. 



Inhabits India : feems much allied to my Black ajidlVhite Fal- 

 con, N° 65. if not the fame bird : is called in India, Cbouama, or 

 Rat-killer *. 



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Female. 



Place. 



White Gyi-falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 83. N° 6g.—Ara. Zool. ii. p. 121. F. 



/^OMMON at Utidfon's Bay, where it is called Pau pune nay 

 fue. Length twenty-three inches : weight forty- five ounces 

 Troy: varies much in colour f. 



6g. 



4-WHITE JER. 



FALCON. 



Brown Lanner, Gen. Syn. i. p. 86. N° 72. — ArB. Zool. ii. p. 225. K. 

 Falco lanarius, Briw. p. i. N" i, 2. — Mtiller, N°67. 



^'jpH.'E Lanner inhabits Iceland and the Ferroe IJles, Denmark, 

 and Sweden ; frequent in the Tartarian deferts and the Ba- 

 raba ; none in the northern or eaftern part of Sihiria \ : well 

 known about Aftrachan, and builds in all the deferts, among the 

 fhrubs and low trees ; is ufed by the Calmucs in falconry |[. In 

 feme parts is migratory, but flays in Frame the whole year §. 



* Being a great enemy to Rais ; as alfo to Mice, Lizards, and other vermin, 

 t Mr. Hutchins. % Mr. Pennant. \\ Dec. Rujf, iii. p. 303.. 



§ Hljl. de Lyons, i. p, 206. 



72. 

 LANNER. 



Henharrier, 



