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Le Chiequera, Lewail. Oif. i. p. 128. pl. 30. 
Faucon Chicquera, Daudiz, Orn. ii, p. 121. xCill. 
"THIS is probably a further variety of the laft, as it correfponds 
as to the general diftribution of colour, though it has not the 
leaft appearance of a creft: the bill, however, in fingularity, exactly 
correfponds with it as to formation, and nearly fo in colour; the 
~-upper mandible has a double notch, and the under truncated before : 
the top of the head and hind part of the neck are rufous, and a 
tinge of the fame appear about the bafe of the bill, and bend of the 
wing ; but the upper parts of the body and wings in general are blue’ 
grey, mottled with darker fpots: the tail much the fame as to colour, 
and. croffed near the end with a broad band of dufky black: the 
tips of all the feathers very pale, nearly white: legs and irides yellow : 
the under parts in general are white, but the breaft, belly, thighs, 
and vent, are croffed with fmall dufky ftreaks: the quills when clofed 
reach two-thirds on the tail, the end of which is rounded. . 
This Mr. Levaillant fuppofes has not been figured before. He 
bought it in a collection from Bengal, where it is faid to be called 
Chicquera. 
F. Gyrfalco, Ind. Ora. i. p. 32. 68. 
Iceland Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 71. 51. B. dee. 2. 
BOUT Cojam, are caught the beft and largeft falcons in the 
world, which are purchafed by the Turks and Perfians. The 
Tartars alfo fly them at antelopes and hares *. 
F, incertus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 32. 70——Mu/. Garlf.ii. tab. 26. 
HIS. is probably a variety of the Gyrfalcon, and is found in 
Sweden, where it is not very common: the bill is black: irides 
* Sce Bell's Trav, i. p. 18,—Ara. Zool. 2. p. 16. & fog. 
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