92 ' FALCON. 



feather of which is brown : the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent* 

 are reddifh bufF-colour ; the laft the paled : the feathers on the 

 brc-aft and belly have a brown ftreak down the {hafts : thighs and 

 vent plain : prime quills dark on the inner, and cinereous blu~ 

 on the outer webs, with bars of brown at an inch diftance each; 

 thefe bars are lefs diftincl: on the inner webs : the firft and 

 fecond of the quills are quite plain, without markings : the fe- 

 condaries are much the fame as the prime quills, but the brown 

 bars rather obfolete : moft of the wing-feathers are white at the 

 tips : the wings when clofed, reach the middle of the tail : rump 

 white : the tail barred with pale and dark brown ; the inner 

 webs of three or four of the outer feathers have much white on 

 the inner webs ; the outer webs incline to ferruginous ; the ends 

 of the feathers are very pale ; the two middle feathers are barred 

 as the reft, but with cinereous and deep brown; the bars are five 

 in number : legs yellow : claws black. 



This bird came from Cayenne, and is in Mifs Blemefield's collec- 

 tion. It was entitled Due de Buff on. — It feems clearly a variety 

 of the laft fpecies, differing only from climate : hence we learn, 

 shat thefe birds are diffeminated throughout America, as the ifland 

 ©f Cayenne and Hudfon's Bay are very far afunder. It is worth re- 

 mark, the near refemblance of the four laft-defcribed, fo much, 

 indeed, that with the lefs fcrupulous ornithologift, they might 

 even pafs for mere varieties, of each other.. 



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