(ESCRIPTION. 



FALCON. 33 



L ™- M "f- BELLIED E. 



EN GTH two feet nine inches. Bill brownifii yellow, large,, and _ 



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aquiline : head, neck, brealt, belly, thighs,, and vent, white : back, 

 wings, and tail, dark brown, except the end of the laft, which is white 

 for about three inches : the legs are yellow, and very ftout : the claws 

 black. 



This bird was brought to England in one of the laft circumnavigating 

 {hips, and is now in the Leverian Mufeum. Its native place unknown. 



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 T ENGTH one foot eleven inches. The bill is rather fmall for the JAPONESE 



fize of the bird, blue at the bafe, and blackifh at the tip: the un- 

 der part of the lower mandible yellowifh : the cere dufky : forehead ■ Di 

 nearly of a buff-colour : the upper parts of the head and body brown, 

 each feather marked with ferruginous juft at the tip : acrofs the hind- 

 head there is a mixture of pale cream-colour, and lower down the fea^ 

 thers are much blotched with the fame : the fides of the head, be- 

 neath the eye, palifh, ftreaked with brown : from the chin fprings a 

 crefcent of black, placed much like that in the Hobby: the chin is white,, 

 ftreaked with fine lines of black: the fore part of the neck and breaft 

 brown, each feather margined with yellowifh white : belly the fame, 

 but darker ; the fhafts of a deep brown : the quills are dark, and on 

 the inner web of each are feveral oval ferruginous fpots, placed tranf- 

 verfely ; the tips of all of them tipped with the fame, except the four 

 or five outer ones, which are plain : the wings, when clofed, reach ra- 

 ther beyond the middle of the tail, which is eight inches long, of a 

 deep brown ; all the feathers are fpotted on each fide of the webs with 

 ferruginous, except the two outer feathers, which are plain on the 

 outer web x. the legs, are yellow : the claws, pretty large, hooked, and 

 black. 



A good fpecimen of this is now in the poffeffion of Mr. Banks, from, 

 which the above defcription is taken. 



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