FALCON. 



26. Le Faucon pecheur cks Antilles, Biif. orn. i. p. 361. N° 14. 



_ ' _ A Jh ~* . Le Faucon pecheur de la Caroline, Brif. orn. i. p. ,62. N° It. 

 CAROLINA r ,. . r 5 



O. ■ Buf. oif. 1. p. 143. 



Le Pefcheur, ^«V fya. p. 19. N° 2. 



Fifhing Hawk, Catejh. Car, i. t. 2, 



Ofprey, Am. Zool. N° 



Ira. Muf. 



Dsscription. 'THE difference between this and the laft is not much; the 



tail in this fpecies being of a plain brown colour : in the 



former it is banded : and it is faid to be longer in the body than 



the European one. Mr. Pennant muft think them the fame, 



fince he has quoted the fame figure in Catejby for his Ofprey. 



the contrary is fometimes feen in the infed tribe. In the common Loijfer, 

 and feveral of the cancer genus, the claws differ much ; but moll fo in the Caro- 

 lina Sand-Crab (cancer <vccans Linn.) one of the claws of which is fo mon- 

 ftrouily large, as to oblige the animal to fupport it on the back when in motion ; 

 while the other is very fmall, fcarcely larger than one of the legs. — In refpeft 

 to winged infefts, it is obferved, that even the marks of the wings exactly corre- 

 fpond on each fide. Indeed, a fingular circumftance occurs in one of the Blatta f 

 or Cockroach genus, which, I believe, is the only one recorded, at leaft ob- 

 ferved by me. In this fpecies, one of the elytra, or wing-cafes, is marked with 

 four white fpots, and the other with three only j which holds good in every 

 fpecimen of it I have yet feen. 



As to Lufus Nat urts, they are far from being uncommon; fuch as a duck 

 without webs to the toes, which I have often feen; a common fnail with 

 the fpiral turns of the fliell reverfed, one of which was found in my garden a 

 few years fince ; alfo a flounder having the eyes and lateral line on the left 

 fide, inflead of the right (mentioned in the Br. Zool. vol. iii. p. 229.) 13c. 



Thefe, and an hundred fuch which might be mentioned, muft be reckoned 

 as Angularities happening now and then, but by no means to be fet down for 

 permanent diilindtions of fpecies. 



f Blatta httimlita, Pall.ffic. N* 9. 1. 1. fig. 3. 



a This 



