FALCON. 



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This inhabits Carolina, and other parts of North America and 

 the, JVeft Indies. — The two numbers of Brijfon, above quoted, are 

 clearly one and the fame bird. 



CIZE of the Ofprey. Length twenty-fix inches : breadth five 

 feet two inches. Bill black: cereobfcure: general colour of 

 the bird a dark rufty brown. A white line pafTes from the 

 upper mandible, over each eye, to the hind head, which, with the 

 nape, is white alfo : crown of the head brown and white, mixed : 

 from the chin quite to the vent, it is white : under the eye, and 

 down each fide of the neck, paries a ftripe of brown, in the 

 fame manner as in the Ofprey : the two middle feathers of the 

 tail are plain brown, the others barred brown and white ; the 

 two outmoft are marked on both fides of the lhaft, but the reft 

 on the inner webs onlyj the tips of all of them are white : the 

 legs are fhort, ftrong, and chagrined beneath the feet ; the co- 

 lour yellowifh : claws very large, ftrong, hooked, and black. 



This bird came from Cayenne, and is in the collection of Mifs 

 Blomefield. — It appears to me clearly, to be a variety of the Of- 

 prey j having every appearance of that bird at firft fight : which 

 proves the Ofprey to be a bird common to every climate. 



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Var.B. 

 N. S. 



CAYENNE 

 O. 



Description. 



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LeFaucon des Antilles, Brif. orn. i. p. 361. N° 13:. MANSFENY 

 Mansfeny, Buf. oi/ % i. p. 144. 

 Mansfeny, Hijl. des Antill. ii. p. Z52. 

 Rail Sjn. p. 19.' N"I. 



'HIS has the lhape and plumage of an Eagle ; differing only Descriptions 

 in fize -, being not much bigger than a Falcon. In colour 



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