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feathers marked on both fides of the fhaft with dufky and white bands: 
guills brown, croffed with dull bands: the tip ferruginous Whiteruy 
Le Tachard, Lewaill. Oxf. i. p. 82. pl. 19. 
Bufe Tacharde, Daudiz. Orz. il. p. 104. cxxxvi. 
FA FIIS is the leaft of the buzzard kind, as far as relates to bulk of 
body, but has a longer tail in proportion: bill dufky; cere 
brown: irides deep reddifh brown: the head is greyith brown, with 
here and there fome irregular whitifi ftreaks: the under parts are 
greyifh yellow, with a mixture of brown blotches: the upper parts 
of the plumage are deep brown, with the edge of each feather paler : 
the tail is deep brown, banded with black, beneath greyifh white, 
with obfcure bands; the feathers of it equal in length: the feathers 
of the thighs reach below the knees, but not at all to the toes, as in 
the Booted Falcon: the legs are mottled brown; toes: dull ferru- 
gineus. 
This was fhot on the banks of the river of Lions, in the Giraffe 
country, in Africa, among the Kaminiquas, who did not know the bird, 
and as Mr. Levaillant never faw another, he fuppofes it to be a rare 
fpecies. 
F, cirrhatus, Izd. Orn. 1. p. 36. Var. A. 
Le Faucon huppé, Levail. Os/. i. p. 121. 28, 
Faucon huppé, Daudin. Orn. Ui. p. 118. XCi. 
HIS, were it not for fize, feems to be coloured moft like the 
Peregrine Falcon; but the male is no bigger than a common 
pigeon, and the female one-fourth larger: the general colour of the 
plumage is flate colour, or greyifh blue: the top of the head fur- 
nifhed with long feathers, which are confiderably darker, inclining to 
brown, alfo the hind part of the neck, and a long patch of the 
Supp. Il, E _ fame 
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