a8 FALCON. 



brown, each feather edged with pale brown : beneath the body is 

 white, with round black fpots : breaft rufous : the fides fafciated 

 with black : tail above deep grey, tranfverfely banded with 

 black : toes bright orange : claws black. 



The feathers on the top of the head are long enough to form 

 a creft, which may be erected or depreffed at will. 



Buffon * fays that this bird, and the Crefted Vulture, N° 2, 

 vary fo little, as to induce him to believe them the fame, differ- 

 ing only from climate,. 



a Falco melanseetus, Lin. Syfl. 1. p. 124. N° 2. 



SLACK. L'Aigle noir, Brif.orn. i. p. 434. N° 8. 



E« L'Aigle commun, Buf. oif. i. p. 86. 



— — PI. enl. 409. 



Melanaajtos, Rati Sytt p. 7, N° 4. 

 Schwartzer-braune Adler, Fri/cb t. 69: 

 Black Eagle, Will orn. p. 6j, feft. 3. t. 2> 

 — Albin. ii. p. 2. 



Discrjption* T ENGTH two feet ten inches. Bill horn-colour, with a tinge 

 of blue :. cere reddifh : hides hazel: general colour blackifh %-. 

 the head and upper part of the neck mixed' with rufous : lowers 

 half of the tail white, with blackifh fpots, the end half blackifh :: 

 legs covered, with dirty white feathers : toes yellow ;. claws. 

 black.. 



Inhabits Europe. 



* Hijl dis Oi/i i. p. 137, N» 2> 



Falco, 



