FALCON. 



ferent periods of life 5 as may be feen in the two plates in 

 Britijh Zoology, above quoted. 



The following lift of Falcons will appear numerous, and are 

 by fome accounted varieties only. — This circumftance I can 

 by no means afcertain ; and will therefore follow Briffbn's ca- 

 talogue of them, leaving the reader to judge for himfelf. 



*S 



LeFaucon, Brif.orn.i. p. 321. N°4- 

 — — — — — Buf. oif. i. p. 249. 

 Schwartz braune Falek, Fri/ch. t. 74. 



49. 

 COMMON 

 FALCON. 



fp H E common fize is that of a middling Hen : the length Description. 



about eighteen inches. The general colour brown : the fea- 

 thers with rufous edges : tail brown, tranfverfely banded with 

 deeper brown. 



From this are faid to fpring the following varieties : 



Le Faucon fors, Briff. cm. i. p. 324. 



— — — — Buf. oif. i. t. 15.—- iV. tul. 470. 



*J* HIS inclines to afli-colour, and is the young of the 

 laft. 



49- . 



Var. hi 



YEARLING 



F. 



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