io8 FALCON. 



bird are of a dirty yellowifh white, perpendicularly ftreaked with 

 brown : the chin very pale, without marks : the vent and thighs 

 the fame : tail chefnut, barred with black; the bars are ten or 

 eleven in number, but are not complete, as they do not touch 

 the fhaft, being only, as it were, a tranfverfe, or rather oblique, 

 mark acrofs each web, but appear as bands, till the feathers are 

 extended : the tail beneath is banded with whitifh and black ..: 

 the legs yellow : claws black. 

 Place. This was defcribed from a fpecimen in the collection of Cap-- 



tain Davies, who brought it from New-Tork* 



93- L'Emerillon des Antilles, Brif.orn.i. p. 385. N° 24, 



CARIBBEE Efmerillon Gry Gry, Rail Syn. p. 19. N° 3. 



M. Du Tertre Hijl. des Antilles, z. p. 253* 



Description, ry HIS bird is very little bigger than a Thrufh. It is rufous 

 above, fpotted with black: beneath white, fpotted longir 

 tudinally with black. 



It inhabits the Antilles:, called there Gry Gry. 

 M. BriJ[on doubts this being different from the other Merlin, 

 and on his authority I place it as a variety. 



M. du Tertre fays, that his bird preys only on Lizards and GrafP* 

 hoppers, and now and then on. very young chickens. 



t'Efmerilloa 





