FALCON, 



9 1 



J'alco Hudfonius, Lin. Syft. i. p. 128. N» 19. 



Epervier de la Baye d'Hudfon, Brif. orn. App. p. 18. N° 47. 



Ringtail Hawk, Ed<w. 3. t. 107. 



Ringtail Falcon, Am. Zool. N° 



Q I Z E of the Jerfalcon : length one foot nine inches and a half. 

 Bill black: cere yellow: the upper parts of the bird are 

 brown ; the under parts white, with rufous brown fpots, of dif- 

 ferent fhapes : over the eye is a ftreak of white : the rump is 

 alfo white: hind head and lower part of the neck are grey 

 brown, varied with darker brown : the two middle tail-feathers 

 are brownifh; the others of a blueifh afh-colour, except the 

 outer one, which is white : all of them are tranfverfely barred 

 with brown : the legs are light yellow : claws black. — Linnaeus 

 fays, it has a blueifh fpot on the wings. 

 Inhabits Hudfon's Bay. 



T E N G T H two feet ; breadth four feet. Bill black : cere 

 blue : parts above, deep chocolate-brown : the fore part of 

 the neck the fame, but paler : on the hind head is a little mix- 

 ture of white : at the hind head arifes a kind of wreath, which 

 paries behind the ears to the throat, in a circular form, 

 not much unlike that of the Ringtail : over the eye is a pale 

 yellow line, which fprings from the bill, and meets the wreath at 

 the part where it begins behind ; each feather of the wreath is 

 black down the fhaft : the chin is of a whitifh colour ; from this 

 paffes a lift of pale buff-colour to the breaft, the fhaft of each 



N 2 feather 



76. 



HUDSON'S BAY 



RINGTAIL. 



Description. 



. 76. 



Var. A. 



CAYENNE 



R. 



Description. 



