BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Falcons. 50^ 



118 X. Italian Falcon. — 71. X. F. communis italicus. 



The breaft is yellow, with rufly fpots ; the extremities of the wings are fpotted with 

 white* 



F. italicus. Jonft. av. 19. BrifF. orn. 97. n. 4. K. Lath. ind. orn. i. 32. n. 67. x.— Italian Fal- 

 con. Lath. fyn. i. 70. n. 49. K. 



The head and neck of this variety, according to Mr Latham, are tawny red with rufty ftrcaks, 

 and the breafl is tawny, with afh coloured minute dots. 



H19 ju. Arctic Falcon. -■— 7 i . p.. F. communis arclicus. 



This variety is not defcribed. 



F. iflandus. BrilT. orn. 97. n. 4. l Iceland Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 70. n. 49. l. 



This laft variety is omitted in Mr Latham's index, though enumerated in his fynopfis, as he pro- 

 bably conliders it to be the lame with -one or other of the varieties of the following fpecies. 



-520 27. Iceland Falcon. — 7 2. Falco iflandus. 87. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is brown above, its lower parts being white 

 with black heart-fhaped fpots ; the tail is barred with white. Brunn. orn. bor. 2. n. 9. 



121 /3. White Iceland Falcon. — 72. /3. F. iflandus alius. 



Of a white colour, the upper parts being marked with minute black heart-fhaped fpots; 

 the two middle tail quills are indiftinctly barred with blackifh. Brunn. orn. bor. 2. n. 7. 



122 *y. Spotted Iceland Falcon. — 72. y. F. iflandus maculatus. 



Of a white colour, having large black heart-fhaped fpots; all the tail feathers are barred 

 with, black. Brunn. orn. bor. 2. n. 8. 



Inhabits Iceland — This fpecies meafures one foot nine inches long: The head is white, mixed with 

 rufly ; the back is dufky, each feather being whitifh, with brown ftreaks, and edged with white ; 

 the tail is rounded at the end, and has about fourteen tranfverfe bars, alternately brown and white ; 

 the claws are black, the back claw being remarkably long. Mr Latham refers the firft variety to the 

 Brown Gyrfalcon, and the other two to the White Gyrfalcori, which will be defcribed afterwards. 



123 28. Barbary Falcon.— 73. Falco barbaras. 8. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is of a bluifh colour variegated with brown 

 fpots, the breaft having no fpots ; the tail is barred. 



F. barbarus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 33. n. 71. — F. barbaricus. BrifT. orn. 99. n. 6. A. — F. tunetanus. 

 Aldr. av. i. 483. Raj, av. 14. n. 9. — Barbary Falcon. Will. orn. 81. Albin, av. iii. t. 2. Lath. fyn. 

 i. 72. n. 51, 



Inhabits 



