L 



FALCON. tg 



Alco pygargus, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. iz6. N° it. RINGTAIL. 



- Seep. ann. l. p. 14. 



Le Faucona Collier, Brif. cm. i. p. 345. N 9 7. the female. 

 La Soubufe, Buf. oif. i. p. 215. t. 9. 

 — — — — PL enl. 443. the female. — 480. the male. 

 Pygargus, Rati. Syn. p. 17. N° A. $.™Will. orn. t. 7. 

 Ringtail, /Fz//. or«. p. 72. 

 Ringtail, Br.Zool. N 59. 



to. Mb/". 



ENGTH one foot feven inches and an half. The bill is Description. 

 pale: cere and irides yellow*: parts above dufky, beneath 

 palifh, with oblong rufous, and in fome, dufky fpots : under the 

 eyes is a whitilh fpot : from the hind head, on each fide, to the 

 chin, pafTes a kind of wreath in a circular manner ; this is made 

 up of ftiffer feathers than the reft, and of a lighter colour : the 

 rump is white : tail longifh, barred with dufky, and tipped with 

 white : beneath, the belly and breafl are of a yellowifh brown, 

 with a caft of red, marked with oblong dufky fpots, but not 

 always ; as Mr. Pennant obferves, that he has feen one of thefe 

 which had the laft-named parts quite plain : the legs are long 

 and yellow : claws black. 



Authors have never blundered more, than in making this bird 

 the fame fpecies with the laft mentioned. Mr. Pennant, in Br. 

 Zool. under that head, fays, " This has been fuppofed to be 

 " the female of the former ; but, from fome late obfervations 

 " by the infallible rule of dijfeclion, males have been found of 



* ScofoH fays the orbits are whitifh. 



N " this 



