FALCON. 



97 



Le petit Aigle d'Amerique, Buf. oif, i, p, 142. 

 • ■ 1 — PL enl, 417. 



T ENGTH from lixteen to eighteen inches. The bill is blue, 

 ftraight at the bafe : cere, and round the eye, yellow : iris 

 orange : throat and neck of a fine purplifh red : upper parts 

 of the body blue, with a reddifh caft : belly and vent reddifh 

 white : legs yellow : claws black. 



This is a moft beautiful fpecies : inhabits Cayenne, and other 

 parts of South America. 



M. de Buffon calls this an Eagle, though fo fmall, as the bill is 

 crooked moftly at the tip. 



82. 



RED- 



THROATED 



F. 



Description. 



Lev. Mtif. 



T ENGTH more than twelve inches : in fhape like our com- 

 mon Buzzard. The bill is dufky : the whole head and neck, 

 as far as the lhoulders, whitifh ; the fhaft of each feather 

 blotched irregularly with rufty brown : back, and wing-coverts, 

 brown ; feveral of the feathers, efpecially on the wing-coverts, 

 are fpotted with white : tail dark brown, croffed with feveral 

 bars; but thefe are nearly obfolete, appearing only on a clofe 

 infpeftion : the quills are very dark, almoft black : the under 

 parts, from the breaft, are white ; down the fhaft of each feather 

 is a blotch of brown; thefe marks fpread out larger and broader as 

 they proceed downwards to the belly : thighs pretty much the 

 fame : vent plain white : legs yellow : claws black. 



A fine fpecimen of this bird is in the Leverian Mufeum, which 



came from North America. 



O Falco 



83. 

 SPECKLED 



BUZZARD. 



N. S. 



Description. 



