52 CLASS AVES. 



White-hilled Hawk. F. leucorhynchus, Quoy and 

 Gaimard, Freycinet, Voy. t. 13. 



Blackish-brown ; cera and feet yellow ; rump white ; 

 tail cinereous, with three white bands. Brazil. Length 

 thirteen inches. 



Oiie-banded Hawk. F. unicinctus, Temm. pi. col. 

 t. 313. 



Brown ; scapulars, thighs, and edges of upper wing 

 coverts red ; throat feathers white edged ; forehead 

 with two white spots ; quills pure brown, white tipt ; 

 tail white, with broad brown bands. Brazil. Length 

 ten inches. 



Vieillot refers F. orientalis and F. Indicus, Lath., 

 to this genus, and describes, as new, Sparvius cine- 

 reus, and S. monachus of Brazil. 



We may, moreover, associate with the Autours, or 

 Gosshawks, some American species, with short wings 

 and short but reticulated tarsi. 



They are called Physeta, and since Herpethotheres, 

 by Vieillot; and Mr. Vigors has restricted the genus 

 Dedalion to them. 



The Laughing Falcon, (F. cachinnans, Lin.) Nacagua, 

 D'Az. Gall. Oist.t. 19. Spix, t.3. a? 



Named from its cry ; white ; the mantle, and a band 

 from each eye, uniting at the neck, brown; the tail 

 with brown and whitish bands. Of the marshes of 

 South America, where it lives on reptiles and fish. 



Streaked Falcon^ Lath. F. melanops. Lath. pi. col. 



t. 105. 

 The size of a crow, black, spotted with white ; be- 

 neath white ; head and neck white, streaked with 



