74 FALCON. 



M. de Buff on * fays, that the 1 aft- defer i bed is the fame, with the 

 Haggard Falcon, or N° 50. Var. B. — This gentleman's remarks 

 are not made without juft foundation, for the moft part; and we 

 are forry that our plan, as a fynopfis, will not admit us to take 

 •them in oftener. All that need be faid on this fubject is, that 

 the variety of the Falcon-tribe is almoft endlefs, as well as the 

 opinion of the different authors who treat on the fubjecl:. 



53^_ Spotted Falcon, Br. Zool, N° 55. t. 26. 



Lev. Muf. 



SPOTTED 

 F 



Description. CIZE of a Buzzard. Bill black: cere yellow: irides pale 

 yellow : crown and hind part of the neck white, fpotted with 

 light reddifh brown : back and fcapulars the fame, edged with 

 white : quills dufky, barred with afh-colour : beneath, the neck, 

 breaft, belly, and thighs are white : on the neck and breaft are 

 a few rufty fpots : rump white : tail barred with lighter and 

 darker brown : middle feathers barred with white and deep 

 brown : the legs very ftrong. 



Mr. Pennant is the only one who has defcribed this bird. 

 Two of them have been fhot at Longnor y in Shropjhire. 



* Hlft. des Qif. i. p. 259. 



Falco 



