Biv A) Te Cl GaN, 
F. tigrinus, Beek. Vog. Karl. S. 10. 11. —=1 Taf. 2. 
Der getiegerte Falke, Alle. Ueb. d. Vog.i. S. 676. 
TH! S is the fize of the Golden Eagle, if not bigger: the cere is 
blue: irides and legs yellow: head, neck, and breaft pale brown, 
but the upper part of both are black; the crown appearing in fine 
ftreaks: the reft of the upper parts are dull brown: quills black: greater 
wing coverts black brown, paler: tail dull brown, croffed with three 
“narrow diftinét bands: beneath, from the breaft, white, marked with 
Jome light brown {pots on the thighs, and under part of the wings, in 
; Manner ofa tiger. This wasa male. It feems like one figured by 
* Frifch, t. 76. 
Inhabits Cour/and, whereabouts it breeds; and is a fpecies equally . 
fierce, agile, and beautiful ; it approaches farm houfes, and is a dread- 
ful enemy to the grous tribe, and hares, on which it feeds. 
Der Rothlichweiffe Falke, Allg. Usb. d. Vog. 1. Zufa/s. 8.676. 120.—Befek. Vog. 
Kurl. §. 10. 12. a. und 13. b. 
‘THis is fomewhat fmaller than the laft: cere, irides, and legs 
yellow: general colour of the plumage reddifh fmutty white: 
but the back, wings and tail, are dull brown; and the ends of the 
wings paler: the head, neck and breaft, are marked with longifh 
dull brown fpots: the feathers which hang over the thighs rufty 
brown, for the ends of each feather having an oval fpot of that colour, 
and being confufedly mixed together, give that appearance: the tail 
croffed with four paler bands: this is the female: the male agrees 
nearly in colouring, but is one-fourth fmaller in fize. 
Inhabits Courland, 
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