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FALCON. 



7 c. 



ORIENTAL 



H. 



N. S. 

 Description. 



Place. 



|^ENGTH feventeen inches. The bill pretty large, hooked, and 

 black ; the under mandible yellow at the bafe : the upper part of 

 the body, in general, of a very dark brown, but darkeft on the head : 

 over the eye is a ferruginous ftreak : the under part of the body ferru- 

 ginous brown, with a black ftreak down the middle of each feather, 

 which is befides marked with fome fpots of pale ferruginous : thighs 

 and vent much the fame, but the laft banded with brown : the quills 

 are dark brown, the inner webs marked with oval fpots of white, placed 

 tranfverfely; befides which, there is an obfcure dufky-white fpot on all, 

 except the three firft : the under wing-coverts are ferruginous, fpotted 

 with white : the tail eight inches long ; all the feathers marked with 

 obfcure dirty-white fpots, from the bafe to within an inch and a half of 

 the end, which is dulky : the legs are pale lead-colour: claws black. 



This is alfo in the poflfeffion of Mr. Banks. Both of them flew on 

 board a fhip, near the coaft of Japan, 



7 a. 



JAVAN 

 H. 



N. S. 



Description, 



PiACE, 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH feventeen inches. Bill yellow at the bafe, and black at the 



tip : the cere yellow : forehead white : upper parts of the body red- 



difh-brown, inclining moft to red on the wing-coverts j the fhafts of 



which are darkeft : the under wing-coverts of a dirty reddifh-white, 



undulated with ferruginous : quills dark brown on the outer, and deep 



ferruginous on the inner webs, which are tranfverfely barred with black j 



the ends nearly black: nape of the neck blotched with white, as in the 



Sparrow Hawk: the tail-coverts are tipped with white: the tail brown, 



even at the end, and banded with black; the bands five in number : the 



wings reach to near- the end of the tail : the throat and breaft like the 



upper parts, but paler ; the margins of the feathers very pale : the belly 



ferruginous brown, barred with white : thighs the fame, but paler: vent 



white : legs yellow and ftout : claws black. 



Suppofed to inhabit Java, as the above bird flew on. board a fhip off 



that ifland. 



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