6a 



FALCON. 



dipugh perhaps it may a little differ from climate. — I do not 

 find it to be in any part of the American continent. 



SLACK KITE. 



Description. 



Difference. 



Le Milan noir, Brif. orn. i. p. 413. N° 34. 



— Buf. cif, i. p. 203. — PL enl. 472. 



Braunermald-Geyer, Kram. Elen. p. 326. N° 5 f 

 Black Gled. Sibb. Scot, illuft. P. 2. lib. 3. p. 15. 



T"* HIS fpecies is faid to be lefs than the common Kite. Bill 

 and cere the fame : the parts above are of a very dark brown 

 colour, inclining to black : the head, breaft, and under parts are 

 whitifh: greater quills black: legs yellow and {lender : claws 

 black. 



It is diftinguiilied from the common Kite, 1 ft, By it's fize 

 being lefs; 2dly, By it's being of a very dark colour; and, 

 3dly, In having the tail-feathers nearly even at the end, or at 

 leaft very little forked. 



I much fufpect this to be the fame with that in Kramer, above 

 quoted; but as he gives no fynonyms, I cannot be quite certain. 



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AUSTRIAN 



KITE. 



Description. 



Brauner-Gcyer ; Brauner Milon, Kram. Elen. 327. N° 6. 



T T is about the fame fize with the Kite. The bill is yellow, 

 with a black tip : cere, and angles of the mouth, yellow ; 

 irides black : palate of the mouth blue : forehead and throat 

 whitifh, fpotted with brown : head, neck, back, breaft, and 

 wings, chefnut; the fliafts of the feathers black: belly and rump 

 teftaceous brown, obfcurely fpotted with brown : the prime quills 



9 are 



