34 FALCON. 



and neck pale aih-colour : body and wings cinereous, clouded 

 with brown : quills very dark : tail white ; legs feathered a little 

 way below the knees, and of a bright yellow colour : claws 

 black. 

 Place. ' Inhabits Europe, particularly Scotland and the Orknies. The 



male is of a darker colour than the female. On Mr. Pennant's 

 authority, and juft reafons, we here place it with the Falcons, as 

 the head and neck are both completely feathered. Indeed the 

 ftraitnefs of the bill might lead Linnaeus to unite it with the Vul- 

 tures ; but he is the only one who has thought fit to rank it with, 

 that genus. 



o. Falco Plancus, J. F. Miller, tab. 17. 



PLAINTIVE Cook's Voy. vol. ii. p. 184, t. 32. 



E. 



Description. T ENGTH twenty-five inches. Bill black : cere, and round 

 the eyes, orange : crown of the head black ; the feathers 

 longifh, forming a creft : the neck, and upper part of the body, 

 the breaft, and upper part of the belly, are grey, ftriated with 

 numerous undulated tranverfe black lines : between the legs 

 black : vent grey brown, with undulated lines : wings brown j 

 fome of the coverrs white, barred with brown ; the four outer 

 quills black, the, inner ones white, with dark bars : tail white, 

 with numerous black bars ; the end, for more than an inch 3 

 black : legs bright yellow : claws black. 

 Inhabits Terra del Fuego. 



Black 



