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colours on each fide the fhaft oppofe each other: the hind head is 
crefted ; one of the feathers, which is much longer than the reft, is 
marked with a fpot of black rear the end: the wing when clofed’ 
reaches two thirds on the tail. 
This inhabits Guiana, 
Epervier 4 yentre roux, Daud. Orn. ii. p. 86. liv.—Mauduit, Encycl. Mérh. 687. 
col .1. ; 
IZE of the common Sparrowhawk, and has a bill as in that bird: 
the head is cinereous brown, paler at the nape: throat whitifh 
in the middle, banded on each fide with rufous: the upper parts of 
the body deep brown, the under rufous: the vent feathers incliaing 
to white: legs yellow; claws black. 
Inhabits. Cayenne. 
Falco hyemalis, Jad. Orn. i. p35. 78. Var. 
Faucon a croupion blanc, Daudin. Orn. li. p. 110. 78» 
Northern Falcon, Gen. Syz.i. p. 79. Var. 
HIS is fixteen inches in length: bill brown; cere greenifh; 
irides yellow: head afh colour, each feather brownifh in the 
middle, and ferruginous on the fides, moft inclining to the laft at 
the hind head: cheeks pale afh colour: orbits and chin whitifh: 
neck afh colour, inclining to brown behind, and to ferruginous on 
the fore part: back cinereous brown: rump white: breaft ferrugi- 
nous, more or lefs mixed with whitifh: belly and thighs white, 
marked with ferruginous, each feather having two or three heart- 
fhaped fpots upon it: tail brown above, beneath pale, with dull dufky 
bars: legs yellow. 
This was killed in Carolina, by Mr, C, Bofe ; it feems clearly a Var. 
ef my Northern Falcon. 
F, melanoleucus, 
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