FAL €C ON. 
Inhabits New Holland, but is not very common. The fpecimen 
from which the above defcription was taken, was caught alive, and 
kept for two months, being fed with fmall birds, fifh, &c. 
F. Bohemicus, Ind. Orn. i. p: 43. 100, 
Maeufe-habicht Miflilauce, Fo/. Mayer. Boehm. Ah, Vi. p. 313- 
i HIS is more than a foot in length: the gape of the mouth, iri- 
des, and legs yellow: the upper parts of the plumage afh-colour- 
ed; beneath white: the orbits white: tail long: the legs fomewhat 
fhort, furnifhed with feathers below the knees: ave of the outer quills 
black on the outer margin. 
Inhabits the mountainous parts of Bohemia, feeding on mice* is 
chiefly obferved of evenings. It has been fuppofed that this bird 
may prove only a variety, if not the fame as the Hen-barrier *. 
F. Tinnunculus, Zzd. Orn. i. p. 41. 98.—Spalousk. Vor. 3. t. 3.—Brif. Orn. i, p- 
Bes 7: 
¥F. Nifus, Seg. Pog. 3 .plea17.—Seop, An. Nat. Add. p. Yo. 
Keftril, Gen. Syn. i. p. 94. 79.—1d. Sup. p. 25. 
¥ Think that this is the bi¥d which in India is called’ Chouee. I have 
‘feen a bird, ‘feeminsly a Kefril, zmone fome Obinefe drawings, 
which was called MJazw-zing, which fienifies Speckled Bird, or ra- 
yenous. The word Maw, means Brachet or Broken, as the face after 
the {mall-pox. In the fame collection, I obferved another called alfo: 
Mawing, but this had the breaft crofied with numerous bars like the 
Sparrow-hawk. 
Nii 
* Bechfein. 
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