502 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. "Falcons. 



fpotted. The young birds are lefs or more variegated with -white, and in fome the tail wants the 

 bars. 



*°4 22, Gofhawk. — 67. -Falco palumbarius. 30. 



The cere is black, edged with yellow ; the legs are yellow; the body is brown ; the 

 tail quills are croffed with fainter bars ; the eyebrows are white. Faun, fuec. n. 67. 



F. palumbarius. Lath. ind. orn. i. 29. n. 65. — Accipiter palumbarius. Gefn. av. 51. Aldr. orn. 

 i. 342. f. p. 343. Raj. av. 18. n. 1. — Afterias. Aldr. orn. i. 336. t. 340. 341. — Aftur. Briff. orn. 

 91. n. 3. — Autour. Buff. oif. i. 230, t. 12. PL enl. 41.8.461.— Aftore. .Cett. uc. fard. 48. Zin- 

 nan. uov. 87. t. 14. f. 77. — Groffer gefperberter falk, Groffer gepfeilter falk. Frifch. av. t. 82. 

 (male) 81 (female). Falck, it. iii. t. 21.— Golhhawk. Brit. zool. i. n. 52. Arc~h zool. ii. 204. 

 n. g<). Albin, ii. t. 8. Lewin, brit. b. i. t. 9. Lath. fyn. i. 58. n. 39. fup. 16. 



Inhabits Europe, Alia, and North America. — This Fpecies is a great enemy to poultry, and is the 

 beft of all the genus for Falconry. It is about thirty-two inches- long ; ■ the bill is blue with a black 

 tip ; the irides are yellow ; the head is brown ; the whole under parts of the body are white, waved 

 \yith black ; the tail is afh coloured, with a white tip, and is longer than to the tips of the wings ; 

 the claws are black : The eggs are bluilh white. A variety of a larger lize is found in . Siberia, on 

 the Uralian mountains, of a white colour mottled with brown and yellow; and in Kamtfchatka a va- 

 . riety is found entirely white. 



105 23. Cayenne Falcon. — 68. Falco cayennenfis. 85. 



The legs are blue; the head and neck are of a bluifh white; the back and wings ate 

 dark afh colour ; the throat, bread, and belly, are whitifh. 



F. cayennenfis. Lath. ind. orn. i. 28. n. 63.— Petit Autour de Cayenne. Buff. oif. i. 237. PL 

 enl. 473. — Cayenne Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 59. n. 40. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — The bill is blue ; the claws and primary wing quill feathers are black ; the fe- 

 condaries are ftreaked with black ; the tail has four or five alternate black and white tranfverfe bars, 

 and is white at the tip. 



106 24. Long- tailed Falcon. — 69. Falco macrourus. 85. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the bill is blackifh ; the body is afh coloured above and 

 white below ; the inner webs of the wing quills are afh coloured, and their ends 

 white. 



F. macrourus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 29. n. 64.-^^ Accipiter macrourus. S. G. Gmel. it. i. 48. Nov. 

 com. petr. xv, 439. t. 8. 9. Lepechin, it. i. 260. — Long-tailed Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 59. n. 41. 



Inhabits Ruffia. — Is about the fize of the Lanner, being one foot feven inches long, of 'which the 

 tail meafures nine inches ; the bill is black, with a green bafe. 



107 25. Gentil Falcon. — 70. Falco gentilis. 13. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is afli coloured, with brown fpot? 5 the tail has 

 four or five broad blackifh bands. Faun. fuec. n. 58. Scopol. an. i. 15. 



