FALCON. 77 



brown: legs yellow: claws black. — Defcribed from a drawing 

 at Mr. Banks's. 



Inhabits Newfoundland. 



58. 

 ST. JOHN'S 



CIZE (in the drawing) of the laft. Bill horn- colour, with a black N g 



tip : cere yellow : forehead, juft over the bill, white : the head Description. 



and neck are ferruginous: the chin the fame, but a little mottled : 



the feathers on the upper parts of the body are deep brown, with 



light margins, fome of the margins nearly white : ridge of the 



wing white : thighs feathered down to the toes : the feathers are 



ftriated with fome broad and fome narrow ftria; : bafe of the tail 



clay-coloured, and the reft of it rather light-coloured, barred with 



black ; on fome of the feathers the bars do not crofs the webs 



tranfverfely, but in an oblique manner : legs yellow : claws 



black. 



This came from Newfoundland with the laft. 



Le Sacre, Brif. orn. i. p. 337. SACRE, 



■ Buf. oif. i. p. 246. t. 14. 



Falco facer, Rail fyn. p. 13. N° z. 

 Sacre, Will. orn. p. 77. 

 Lev. Muf. ? 



CIZE of the Jerfalcon. The bill of this bird is blue : eyes Description-. 

 black : back, breaft, and upper wing-coverts fpotted with 

 10 brown: 



