FALCON, 



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Le Faucon de Roche, ou Rochier, Brif. orn. i. p. 3-49. N° 8. 

 Le Rochier, Buf oif. i. p. 286. — PL enl. 447. 

 Lithofalco, & Dendrofalco, Rail Syn. p. 14. N° 8, 

 Stein-falck, Fri/ch. t. 86. 

 Stone, or Tree falcon, Will. orn. p. 80. 



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STONE 



FALCON. 



OI ZE of a Keftril: 

 blueifh afh-colour 



length twelve inches and a quarter. Bill Description.. 



cere and irides luteous : above cinereous, 

 with black fhafts to the feathers : beneath rufous, with longitu- 

 dinal brown fpots : tail cinereous ; at the end blackifh ; the very 

 tip white ; all the feathers, except the two middle ones, are 

 barred tranfverfely with black. This appears very like the Merlin, 

 reprefented in the Planches Enhtminees,, N° 468.. 



Le Faucon de Montagne, Brif. orn. i. p. 35.2. N° g. 

 Falco montanus, Rail Syn. p. 13. N°4. 

 Mountain Falcon, Will. orn. p. 78. 



'TTHIS is lefs than the Peregrine Falcon, but has a fhorter tail. 

 The bill is black : plumage above brown, or afh-colour : 

 throat and fore part of the neck whitifh, fpotted with either fer- 

 ruginous or black 3 and in fome the neck and breaft are quite 

 black : tail afh-coloured, end black, the very tip white : legs 

 yellow: claws black. When the bird is come to it's full colour, 

 the head is black ; the breaft has more white in it the oftener it 

 has moulted ; and the back and fides are of a deeper afh-colour. 

 This is in brief what M. Brijfon fays of the bird : but he re- 

 marks the probability of it's being a variety of the Stone Falcon, 

 and likewife mentions a further variety -, which follows- 



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MOUNTAIN 



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