FALCON. 



IS 



Falco Norweglcus, Leemius de Lapp. p. 236? 

 Graafalk, ASa nidrofa, vol. iv. p. 417. t. 13? 

 Falco lagopus, Brun. orn. hor. p. 4. N° 15. 

 Rough-legged Falcon, Br. Zool. app. t. I. 

 Lev. Muf. 



'"THE length is two feet two inches. Bill dufky: cere yellow : 

 head, neck, and breaft of a yellowiih white, marked in 

 fome parts with oblong brown ftrokes : the belly of a deep 

 brown : thighs and legs of a pale yellow, marked with brown : 

 fcapulars blotched with brown and yellowiih white : coverts of 

 the wings brown, edged with ruft : ends of the primaries deep 

 brown ; the lower parts white : the extreme half of the tail 

 brown, tipt with dirty white ; that next the body white : legs 

 covered with feathers as low as the feet : the feet yellow. 



This fpecies is a native of Denmark, with the former. We 

 owe this defcription and figure to Mr. Pennant. The fpecimen 

 referred to was fhot near London, and is now in the Leverian 

 Mufeum. 



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Description, 



Le Faueon patu, Sri/, erx. vi. app. p. 22. t. 1. 



TT is from M. Brifon that we have defcribed this fpecies. He 

 fays that it is the fize of the Jerfalcon ; length one foot feven 

 inches and a quarter. The bill blackifh : cere and eyelids lu- 

 teous : parts above blackifh-brown, with a tinge of violet, and 

 variegated with dirty grey : beneath yellow brown/ with longi- 



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