FALCON. 



E N G T H twenty inches. Bill pale alh -, tip black : cere 

 yellow : iris deep yellow : parts above brown : nape ferru- 

 ginous : back, wing coverts, and fcapulars, margined with a 

 paler colour : cheeks inclining to alh-colour : belly ferruginous, 

 with irregular dark blotches: vent clay-coloured : thigh-feathers 

 of a mottled aih-colour, with round dark fpots on the feathers ; 

 the lower ones have four great blotches of the fame : tail barred 

 of a deeper and lighter brown ; four bars in all : legs ftrong, 

 yellow, feathered half way down : claws black. 



Inhabits Newfoundland. — Defcribed from a drawing in Mr, 

 Banks's, collection. 



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Description, 



Le Faucon etoile, Brif. orn. i. p. 359. N° 11. 



Blue-footed Falcon, Will. orn. p. 82. chap. xi. near the end. 



^TPHIS is faid to be like the Peregrine Falcon in fize and fhape, 

 but has fhorter wings, and a longer tail. The general co- 

 lour is blackifh, marked with fpots refembling ftars : beneath it 

 is black and white mixed : quills blackifh : legs blue. 

 The iris is of the colour of gold. 



CIZE of a Ringtail: length eighteen inches. Bill horn-colour: 



irides reddifh : parts above deep lead-colour : edges of the 



feathers very dark ; the top of the head is darkeft ; on the hind 



head a flight mixture of white : beneath ferruginous brown, 



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