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FALCONID.E. 



white or ashy band, and all its feathers tipped with ash- 

 colour : cere, base of the beak, and legs yellow. The 

 young have the head, neck, and under parts reddish- 

 white, blotched and spotted with brown : the back 

 and wing-coverts ashy-brown, with the edges of the 

 feathers reddish : the greater coverts have several 

 large red spots, which are striped with black zigzag 

 lines : the secondaries and quills are red at the base, 

 and marked on that part with distant black zigzag 

 lines ; their tips are deep brown : the thighs are red, 

 with numerous black zigzags : the tail is marbled at 

 the base with red, white, and brown, irregularly 

 rayed with red and brown in the middle, and tipped 

 with deep brown. 



Said by D'Azara to be very abundant in Para- 

 guay : it lays two eggs, of a tawny-red, spotted with 

 blood-colour. 



GENUS XXVII.— PERNIS, Cuvier. HONEY-BUZZARD. 



Rostrum mediocre. 



Lorum plumis serratis tec- 

 tum. 



Tarsi mediocres, semiplu- 

 mati ; acrotarsia reticu- 

 lata. 



Remex tertia longissima. 



Beak mediocral. 



Lores covered with serrated 

 feathers. 



Tarsi mediocral, half-fea- 

 thered ; acrotarsia reticu- 

 lated. 



Third quill longest. 



Sp. 1. Pe. apivorus. 



Falco apivorus. Shaiv, v. vii. p. 1 14. — Britain and Europe. 



Sp. 2. Pe. ptilorynchus. 



Pe. cristatus, fuscus, suprh transversim undulcitiis ; alis fascia 

 cinereo-grised omatis ; caudd nigra ; basi fascia, albidd. 



