FALCON; ioi 



without the leaft appearance of any bands, or other markings. 

 It was fhot in Dorfetjhire, near which place others have been 

 feen of the fame colour. 



86. . 

 +- PIGEON 

 H. 



Falco columbarius, Lin. fyft. . p. 128. N° 21. 

 L'Epervier de la Caroline, Brif. orn. i. p. 378. N° 2r. 

 L'Epervier des Pigeons, Buf. oif. i. p. 238. 

 Pigeon Hawk, Catejb. Car. i. p. 3. t. 3. 



Am. Zcol. N° 



• Lev. Muf. 



THE length of this bird is ten inches and a half ; breadth Description. 



twenty-two inches and a half; weight fix ounces and a half. 

 The bill is whitiih, with a black tip : irides and cere luteous : the 

 head, hind part of the neck, back, rump, wing and tail-coverts, 

 are brown : throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, belly, fides, 

 and under tail-coverts, yellowiih white, ftreaked with brown : tail 

 brown, with four narrow darker bands : the le°:s are vellow : 

 claws black. 



Catejby adds, that the thigh- feathers reach within half an inch 

 of' the claws. 



This inhabits Carolina and other parts of North America. At Place. 



Hudfon's Bay it is called the Small Bird Hawk. It is there mi- Manners, . 

 gratory, arriving in May, and retiring in Autumn : it feeds on 

 fmall birds ; flies in circles ; and makes an hideous ihrieking 

 noife at the approach of any one. 



falco 



