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its significance in relation to a genus as much distinguished for the 

 strength aud size of the bill, as any one of the whole order. 



3. — Indication of a new Genus of the Falconidx. 

 Falconing, Vigors. Genus new. Baza, nobis. 

 Generic character. Bill as in Ierax, but somewhat longer : upper 

 mandible, with two sharp teeth on either side the hook, directed for- 

 wards : lower mandible with three or four smaller ones, on each side, 

 correspondent to the former. Nares transverse, long, and linear, 

 with the cere behind them membranous and free to base of bill. Legs 

 and feet short and thick. Tarsi low, half plumed, coarsely reticulate. 

 Toes short, cleft, inner fore and hind somewhat depressed and the 

 latter large. Aeropodia wholly reticulate. Talons sub-equal, acute, 

 squared below. 



Wings long, equal to tail : 3rd quill longest. 

 Type. Baza Sydma, nobis. 



In addition to the above significant particulars, (some of which may 

 hereafter be omitted in the generic character,) I may add that the 

 orbits, lore, and sides of the cere are clad in soft, composed plumage ; 

 that the cere is short and nude above ; that the bill has great breadth 

 and depth at the base, corresponding with the broad flat head and 

 large eye of the true Falcons, and, both of which distinguish our bird 

 no less ; that the first and second quills are but moderately gradated*, 

 and all three pretty sharply emarginated towards their tips, though 

 not so near as in Falco or in Ierax ; that the tail is of medial length 

 and square ; that the tongue is bifid ; and that, lastly, the feeble feet 

 are remarkable for the sub-equality of the toes and talons, the rough- 

 ness and levelness of the soles, and the size and depression of the 

 thumbs. The complex affinities of this singular genus are obviously 

 with Cymindis, Harpagus and Ierax. It is more nearly allied to the 

 last, and its position (in Vigors' arrangement of the Falconidce) clearlv 

 is at the head of the Falconinae, and leading from the genus Gamp- 

 sonix to the genus Ierax. It differs from Ierax by its cymindian 

 nares, its long wings, and its cleft toes, with unbailed and depressed 

 soles. 



Species new. Baza Sydma, nobis. 



Black, glossed with changeable blue or green : the belly and sides, 

 rufous white, crossed by five or six broad bars of lake tinged ochreous 

 red : outer web of the secondaries, the same hue — of the tertials, 



* 1st is If inches, and the 2nd $ an inch, less the 3rd : the rest rapidly 

 fall off ; and the primaries exceed the tertiaries hy nearly three inches. The 

 scapulars are of good length. 

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