BIRDS*. RAPACIOUS. Falcons. 511 



144, 46. Brown Gyrfalcon. — 87. Falco Gyrfalco. 27. 



The cere is blue; the legs are yellow ; the body is brown, the lower parts being mark- 

 ed with brown bars ; the fides of the tail are white. Faun. fuec. 64. 



F. Gyrfalco. Lath. ind. orn. i. 32. n. 68. — Gerfalco iflandus. Briff. orn. 108. Brun. orn. bor. 

 n. 9. Muller. n. 73. — Gerfault d'ifland. Buff. oif. i. 239. t. 13. Briff. 4to. orn. i. 373. a. t. 31- 

 Pl. enl. 210. — Iceland Falcon. Gent, magaz. 1771. 297. fig. Lath. fyn. i. 71. n. 50. b. parag. 2. — 

 Brown Jerfalcon. Lath. fyn. i. 82. n. 68;- 



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Inhabits Europe, particularly Iceland. — Lives on herons, cranes, and pigeons : This bird has fome- 

 times blue legs ; the bill is ftrong, much hooked, and its upper mandible is fharply angulated at its 

 edges; the head is pale nifty, ftreaked longitudinally with duiky ; the neck, breaft, and belly are 

 white, with heart-fhaped fpots ; the thiglxs are white, with deep brown Ihort crofs bars ; the back 

 and wing coverts are dulky or brown, with white fpots and edges to the feathers ; the exterior edges 

 of the primary wing quills are dulky, mottled with reddifh white, the inner being barred with white;, 

 the tail quills are crofted with fourteen or more narrow bars, alternately white and dulky. 



145 47. White Gyrfalcon. — 38. Falco candicans. ior. 



The cere and legs are bluifh am ; the body is white with dulky bars, lines, or fpots. 



F. iflandus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 32. n. 6g. — Gyrfalco. Aldr. orn. i. 471. t. p. 473. Raj. av. 13. 



n. 3 Accipiter mufcoviticus. Ger. orn. i. 60. t. 30. — Gerfault. Briff. orn. i. 370. n. 19. t. 30. f. 



2. Buff. oif. i. 239. t. 13. PI. enl. 2.15. (446? 462?) — Gerfalcon. Will. orn. 78. n. 3. — Gyrfalcon. 

 Brit. zool. n. 47. Arc"t. zool. ii. 22 J. f. Lewin, brit. .hi i. t. 16. — White Jerfalcon. Lath. fyn. i. 

 83. n. 69. fup. 21. 



146 /3. Iceland Gyrfalcon.- — 88. jS. Falco candicans [flandicus. 



The upper parts of the body are brown, the back and wings being fpotted with white \. 

 the under parts are white, with black fpots. 



Gerfault d'ifland. Briff. orn. i. 373. t. 31. — Iceland Jerfalcon. Lath., fyn. L 84. n. 6g. A.^— 

 Dulky Falcon ? Arc"t. zool. ii. 220. f. 



Inhabits Iceland, and the north of Scotland rarely. — Is about the fize of the Golhawk, and is rec- 

 koned, efpecially in Denmark, the beft kind of Falcon for game, being referved in Iceland for the 

 ufe of the king^ and bought, particularly the white variety, at a high price. The bill is ftrong, much 

 hooked, of a blue-afh colour, and black at the tip; the claws are leaden coloured ; the orbits and hi- 

 des are blue : The irides ^f the Iceland variety are yellow. 



I aj 48. Surinam Falcon.— 89. Falco fujjlat or. 17. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the body is whitilh brown ; the eyelids are bony. 

 F. fufflator. Lath. ind. orn. i. 37. n. 87. — Surinam Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 85. n. 70. 



Inhabits Surinam and Cayenne. — When irritated or. frightened, we are informed, by Mr Rolanderj 

 that this fpecies has the power of inflating the fkin of the head till it equals the reft of the body in. 



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