FALCON". 8$ 



feathers white at the bafe : the under parts, and the tail-feathers, 

 fpotted with brown, white, and luteous : legs yellow. 



It inhabits Surinam. When this bird is either angry or fright- Place and 

 ened, it blows* up the head till it is of the fize of the body. Manners. 



In Mifs Blomefield's collection is a bird very like this, if not 

 the fame, viz. about the fize of the Hen-harrier : above brown* 

 with a mixture of ferruginous : forehead and throat paleft: hind 

 head and neck marked as the fore parts : from the bafe of the 

 bill to a little beyond the eyes, is a ftreak of brown, ending in 

 a point at the back part: the under parts are white, ftreaked 

 with brown : the breaft tinged with ferruginous : thighs bufx- 

 colour : quills fpotted with ferruginous ; beneath dirty white,:.. 

 with obfcure narrow bars of brown : legs yellow. 



This fpecimen came from Cayenne, 



Falco cachinnans, Lin. Syft. i. p. 128. N° 18. _ ,_,7 i: ' 



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fERE luteous: eyelids white : body mixed brown and whitifti: Description. 



neck, throat, breaft, belly, and under the wings, white : tail 

 banded with luteous and black.: legs luteous. 



This bird, on obferving any perfon, fets up, a kind of 

 laugh. 



* This is likewife mentioned by Bancroft, who fays the bird diftends his 

 head- with air, when either angry or terrified. — This ought to be enquired into, 

 as it muft arife from a ftrufture peculiar to this bird. — As to the difienfion of 

 the throat and breaft of the Pouter-Pigeon, it arifes merely from the crop being 

 filled with wind, and I believe has not any thing different in it's ftru&ure 

 frem that of other Pigeons.. 



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