9S FALCO N, 



74. 



4- HEN Falco cyaneus, Lin. SyJ?. 1. p. 126. N° 10. 



HARRIER, Le Lanier cendre, Brif. orn. i. p. 365. N° 17. 



Le Faucon a Collier, D° i. p. 345. N" 7. /£* ot«&. 

 L'oifeau St. Martin, Buf. cif. i. p. 212. — PL enJ. 459-. 

 Grau weifle geyer, Frifcb. t. 79, 80. 

 Blue Hawk, Ed<w. 5. t. 225. 

 -Hen Harrier, -Br. Z00L N° 58. t. z-8. 



Description. ^r»HE length is feventeen inches; width three feet three 

 inches; weight twelve ounces. The bill is black: cere and 

 irides yellow: edges of the eyelids the fame: general colour blue- 

 grey: back of the head white, fpotted with pale brown : breaft, 

 belly, and thighs, white ; on the firft, a few fmall dufky flreaks : 

 the two middle tail-feathers are grey ; the outer webs of the 

 others are the fame, but the inner webs are white, barred with 

 dufky : legs yellow, long, and (lender : claws black. 



M. Sakrne* has followed Mr. Ray f, in fuppofing it to be the 

 fame bird with the Jean le Blanc, N° 17 : but this cannot be; we 

 have not the lafc in England; befides, the Jean le Blanc is above 

 two feet in length, and not much lefs in fize than the Black 



Eagle. 



*Otn. de Sakrne, p. 23. N° 5. t Rail Sjn. p. 17. N° 5. 



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