FALCON. 9J. 



This, efpecially the male, is a very beautiful fpecies : it Mans-ers, 

 feeds on mice, fmall birds, and infects. This is the bird that 

 we fo often fee in air hovering it's wings, and, as it were, fixed 

 to one fpot for fome length of fpace. At this time it may be 

 fuppofed watching it's prey, which, when the eye has fixed 

 once upon, it darts to the earth with rapidity, in order to fecure 

 it. — This was once ufed in falconry, for fmall birds and young 

 Partridges, . 



79- 

 L'Epervier des Alouettes, Br if. orn. i. p. 379.. N° 22. Var. A. 



Maufe-falck, F-ifcb. t. 88. LARK HAWK.. 



DE BUFFON* fuppofes this not to be different from the Description, 

 female Keftril, as will appear from reading the defcription 

 in Brijfon, as well as comparing the figure in Frifch, above re- 

 ferred tO. 79. 



S. G. Gmelinf mentions a variety of the Keftril which is grey, grrykESTRIL 

 with the fhafts of the feathers black. 



Le Faucon pecheur de Senegal, cu Le Tanas, Buf. oif. i. p. 275. — PI. enl. 478. g©^ 



Faucon pefcheur, Damp. Voy. vol.Jii. Fr. edit. p. 218. FISHING. 



FALCON. . 



HPHIS is rather lefs than the Falcon, but has fome refemblance Descriptiow*-- 



to it. The bill and irides are yellow : the whore head fer- 

 ruginous : parts above cinereous ; the' edges of the feathers fer- 



* Oif. vol. i. p. 283. 



f Voy.., vol. i. p. 49. t, 10. 



3 ruginous . 



