7 6 



FALCON. 



tudinal blackifh lines : head and upper part of the neck fulvous 

 grey, with lines of the fame : over the eyes a black ftripe : tail 

 brown; towards the end blackifh; tip grey, fpotted with whitifh 

 on the fides : legs feathered to the toes, which are luteous : 

 claws black. 



The above author fays that this bird is in the Mufeum of 

 Madame de Bandeville, but does not mention from what country. 



56. 

 ROUGH- 

 FOOTED 



F. 



Rough-footed Falcon, Forft. Cat. N. A. p. 9. 



. .... Am. Zool. N° 



"VT O doubt but we fhall fee an illuftration of this fpecimen in 

 the Am. Zool. foon to be publifhed. Mr. Forfter mentions 

 it as a new fpecies, it therefore cannot be the former. But it is 

 not improbable that it may prove to be one of the following, 

 which I defcribe from Mr. Banks's drawings. 



57« 

 PLACENTIA 



F. 



N. S. 



Description. 



I" ENGTH (in the drawing) nineteen inches. Bill black: cere 

 yellow : colour of the plumage dufky chocolate brown, in-. 

 clined to ferruginous : the feathers on the head and thighs the 

 lighted : quills very dark: infide of the wings and tail cinereous 

 white, thelaft not barred: the breaft is pretty dark; on it, here and 

 there, are fome blotches of white, and on the belly fome cinereous 

 ones : vent cinereous : the legs are feathered down to the toes : the 

 feathers which cover the legs are dafhed perpendicularly with 



brown : 



