FALCONID.i;. 



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rest of the bird dark brown : greater wing-coverts 

 marked slightly with white : quills with some grey- 

 brown, dark, marbled transverse stripes : tail broad, 

 with four whitish transverse stripes, marbled with 

 greyish-brown : feathers of the thighs, legs, lower 

 parts of the back, rump, and vent dark brown, witli 

 narrow transverse lines. 



GENUS XV.— PHYSETA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum breve ; mandibula 

 inferior ad apicem cordi- 

 forme-emarginata ; nares 

 tuberculatae. 



Tarsi digitique breves; di- 

 giti externi basi membrana 

 connexi ; ungues sub- 

 aequali, acuti. 



Beak short ; the under man- 

 dible with a heart-shaped 

 emargination towards the 

 tip ; nostrils tuberculated. 



Tarsi and toes short; the 

 outer toe connected at the 

 base by a membrane ; the 

 clazvs nearly equal, acute. 



^-Sp. 1. Ph. sufflator. 



Falco sufflator. Shaiv, v, vii.p. 155. 



Inhabits South America. The natural situation 

 of this extraordinary bird is doubtful, but it appears 

 to belong to the present stirps, and to be allied to the 

 Morphni. 



GENUS XVI.— CYMINOIS, Cuvier. 



Beak convex above ; nostrils 

 nearly closed, and resem- 



Rostrum supra convexum ; 

 nares subclausi, rimaefor- 



mes. 

 Tarsi breves; digiti semi- 

 palmati. 



A. Acrotarsiis scutellatis. 



bling a cleft. 

 Tarsi short; toes half- web- 

 bed. 



A. Acrotarsia scutellatcd. 



