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brown : thighs white on the infide : tail fpotted with kidney- 

 ihaped fpots : legs blue. 



M. Brijfon places this among his variety of Falcons, and fays 

 that it is a bird of paffage. 



M. de Buffon will have it to be a diftincl fpecies from any of 

 the Falcon tribe, being more allied to the Lanner. 



59- 

 Var. A. Falco facer, Phil. Tr. vol. lxii. p. 382. 



AFRICAN TheSacre,^.Z«/.N» 



Description, t EN GTH twenty-two inches ; breadth three feet ; weight two 

 pounds and a half. Bill and cere blue : irides yellow : 

 head whitifh, with longitudinal {breaks of brown : throat white, 

 fpotted with brown: parts above brown, the feathers fpotted and 

 edged with ferruginous, the fpots not touching the fhafts : be- 

 neath this bird is white, with longitudinal dark brown fpots : 

 the quills are black brown ; the margins and* ends of the prime 

 ones white, tranfverfely fpotted within with pale ferruginous: 

 the leffer quills marked with round fpots on the outfides. 



This bird inhabits North America, and was fent from Severn 

 River, Hudfon's Bay, where it is called Speckled Partridge Hawk. 

 It is faid never to migrate. Quere, Is this a variety of the laft, 

 ■or a different fpecies ? 



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