FALCON. 4* 



I am indebted likewife to the above-mentioned gentleman for 

 this fhort account; and on his opinion I place it as a new 

 fpecies. 



L'Aigle du Bfefil, Sri/, orn. i. p. 445. N» 12. BRAZILIAN 



Urubitinga, Buf oif. i. p. 141. — Rail Syn. p. 8. N° 9. g^ 



— 1 Will. orn. p. 64. 



DR IS SO N fays it is as big as a goofe of half a year old. Description. 



The bill is thick and black : cere yellowifh : eyes large : 

 general colour brown : wings blackifh, mixed with cinereous : 

 tail white for two-thirds of it's length, then black, with a white 

 tip : the legs are naked, and yellow. 

 This is an inhabitant oiBrafil. 



L'Aigle de Pondichery, Bri/ orn. i. p. 450. N*i5- t. 35. t T . 

 Buf. oif. i. p. 136. PONDICHERRY 



■ PL enl. 416. 



E. 



'"PHIS bird, according to the drawing, muft be an handfome Description,, 



fpecies. In fize it equals the Jerfalcon. Length one foot 

 feven inches. The bill is cinereous, with the tip yellow : cere 

 blueifh : colour of the body chefnut ; the fhaft of each feather 

 blackifh : the head, neck, and breaft, are white, with a longi- 

 tudinal brown line down the middle of each feather : the end- 

 half of the fix firft prime quills is black : tail-feathers chefnut ; 

 the fix middle feathers are of a palefulvous colour at the tip; 

 the three others have narrow blackifh bands on the inner webs : 

 legs luteous : claws black, 



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