FALCON. 



fino- to the hind head; beneath it a black mark pointing 

 downwards : throat white : breaft tinged with dull yellow, 

 marked with brown fpots patting downwards : thighs and vent 

 the fame : the quills are dufky, marked with oval ferruginous 

 fpots on the inner webs : tail the fame : legs ftiort, ftrong, and 

 of a blueiih caft. 



Inhabits Europe; breeds in Ireland; one fhot in a decoy in 

 Lincoln/hire. I believe it is far from common in England. 



73- 

 ie -Lanier blanc, Sri/, om. i. p. 367. N° 18. WHITE 



Lanarius, AUrov. orn. i. p. 38a. Fig. in i8i 3 183 *. -L. 



OF thefe Briffon mentions two forts from Aldrovandus : the 

 ■*> Description. 



firft is one foqt feven inches and a half long. Has the 

 bill and claws black : cere and irides yellow : head, neck, breaft, 

 belly, fides, thighs, rump, and under tail-coverts, inclining to 

 brown : the quills,, and the tail above, nearly black : under the 

 tail pale grey : cere yellow : legs luteous. 



The fecond has the bill, &c. the fame with the other, but Var.A> 



is two feet one inch in length. The head and back brown, 

 mixed with grey : rump whitifh : upper wing-coverts and breaft 

 grey : belly, fides, thighs, and under tail-coverts, grey alfo, but 

 marked with longitudinal ferruginous fpots : the three outfide 

 tail-feathers are white, fpotted with pale ferruginous; the fourth 

 on each fide, counting from the outfide, fpotted with black ; the 

 two middle ones are grey. Perhaps they are both varieties of 

 the Brown Lanner. 



Brijfon does not mention their place. 



• Thefe .figures are not accurate. 



Fako 



