FALCON. 103 



Epervier a gros bee de Cayenne, Buf. oif. p. 237. GREAT-BILLED 



- — — PL enl. 464. p 



f-pHIS fpecies exceeds the Sparrow Hawk a little in fize. The Description. 



bill is longer and thicker than in that bird, and of a black 

 colour : the cere is yellow : iris orange : the general colour of 

 the plumage brown above; the feathers edged with ferruginous 

 brown : on the fore parts, as far as the breaft, the colour is the 

 fame, but has a greater portion of the ferruginous mixture : the 

 belly, thighs, and vent are white, marked with numerous narrow 

 ferruginous ftrise : the tail is banded black and white: legs yel- 

 low: claws black: the legs are fhorter than in the Sparrow Hawk. 



M. de Buffon is the firft who has mentioned this bird, and 

 informs us that it inhabits Cayenne. He calls it the Great-billed 

 Sparrow Hawk; the firft term, as having the bill larger in pro- 

 portion ; and the laft,- as being in figure more like that bird than 

 any other. 



Falco fubbuteo, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 127. N" 14; 9°" 



Le Hobreau, Brif. orn. i. p. 375. N° 20. 



-Buf. oif. i. p. 277. t. 17. 

 -PL enl. 431, 432. 



Stein falck, Frifch. t. 86. 



Dendro falco, Raiijyti. p. 14. N° 8. & Subbuteo, p. 15, N° 14,. 



The Hobby, Will. orn. p. 83. 



Br. Zool. N° 61. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf . . 



ENGTH twelve inches: breadth two feet three inches: Description*.. 

 weight feven ounces. The bill is blue : cere and orbits 



yellow : . 



