xti FALCON. 



9 6. 



MINUTE Falco minutus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 131. N J 32. 



■P- Le petit Epervier, Brif. on. i. p. 315. N° 2. iV. 30. f. I. 



Description. r T* HIS, according to Br;Jfon, is lefs than the Merlin, being 



eleven inches and three quarters in length. The bill rs 



black : cere brown : parts above brown, variegated with rufous : 



beneath white, with tranfverfe rufous brown ftrias : tail brown, 



banded with deeper brown : legs luteous : claws black. 



This bird inhabits the IJland of Malta. M. Brijfon mentions a 

 variety of this, having only four brown bands on the tail, and 

 lance-fhaped fpots on the breaft. 



M. de Buffon * fays, it is probable that this bird may prove to 

 be merely the Tiercelet, or male of the Sparrow Hawk, called by 

 the Falconers a Monchet. 



BENGAL Falco cserulefcens, Lin. Syft. i. p. 125. N 9. 



F, Le Faucon de Bengale, Brif. om. afp. p. 20. N° 38. 



Little black and orange Indian Hawk, Edixi. 3. t. 108. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. ; 1 4 HIS is faid to be the leaft of the Falcon genus, being in length 

 only fix' inches and a half. The bill is blackifh: cere and 

 eyelids luteous : the forehead is white : the eye placed in a naked 

 yellow fkin, round which is a bed of black, pafiing downwards 

 a little way oh each fide of the neck, and this is again bounded 

 by white : general colour of the parts above is purpiilh black ; 



* Eift. des Oif. i. p. 2z6. 



that 



