102 



FALCON. 



87. 



•f- GUIANA 

 F. 



Description. 



Place. 



Falco fuperciliofus, Liit.fyft. i. p, 128. N° 22. 



CIZE of a Magpie. Bill black: cere and eyelids luteous: lore 

 thinly befet with black briftles : eye-brows prominent, naked 

 beneath : parts above brown : rump varied with 'white and 

 black : beneath wholly undulated with fine tranfverfe lines of 

 black, even the thighs : vent white, with black lines : greater 

 quills ferruginous, with many bands of black ; fecondaries 

 whitifh on the pofterior margin : tail black, with two broad 

 paler bands, and a cinereous tip : legs luteous : claws black. 



Inhabits Surinam. — A fpecimen I received from Cayenne was 

 much fmaller than Linn<eus mentions, though it anfwered to his 

 description ; fo we may fuppofe it to be the male, of which he, 

 perhaps, defcribes the female ; and at firft carl of the eye puts 

 one in mind greatly of the male Sparrow Hawk, being much of 

 the fame make and proportions. 



£8 



ingr'ian 



F. 



Falco vefpertinus, Lin.fyft. i. p. 129. N° 23. 



■ S. G. Gmelin, voy. i. p. 6j. t. 43. 



Description. |X is about the fize of a Pigeon. The bill is yellow, with a 

 brown tip : the cere and eyelids are luteous : head brown : 

 body blueifh brown : belly blueilh white : vent and thighs fer- 

 ruginous : tail brown : quills blueifh white j the primaries, from 

 the firft to the feventh, are blackifh at the tip: the legs are naked 

 and luteous. 



This bird inhabits Ingria, where it is called by the inhabitants 



Kobez. 2 



Epervier 



