512 BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Falcone, 



fize. On the upper part of the body the plumage is brown, the bafes of all the feathers being white; 

 the under parts of the body and the tail quills are yellow, fpotted with white and brown j the noftrils 

 have a flefhy lobe between them. 



148 49. Laughing Falcon.-— 90. Frilco cachinnans. 18. 



The cere and legs are yellow ; the eyebrows are white ; the body is varied with brown 

 and whitifii ; the crown is white, and furrounded with a black circle. 

 F. cachinnans. Lath. ind.. orn. i. 37. n. 88. — Laughing Ealcon. Lath. fyn. 1. 85-. n. 71. 



Inhabits South America. — This fpecies is reported, by Mr Rolander, to emit a kind of laugh when 

 any perfon looks at it : The upper parts of the body, the back, wings, and rump are brown ; the 

 neck, chin, breaft, belly, and under furface-of the wings are white ; the tail is barred with black and 

 yellow. 



J 49 ,50. Streaked Falcon. — Falco melanops. 



The cere and legs are yellow; the body is black, with white fpots ; its under fide is 

 white ; the head and neck are white, with black ftreaks ; the fpace round the eyes 

 is. black ; the tail quills are black, having a white band in the middle. Lath. ind. 

 orn. i. 37. n. 89. Syn. fup. 34. 109. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — This fpecies is about the fize of a Rook, being fifteen inches and a half long ; 

 The black fpace round the eyes is of an oval form, growing narrow and pointed at its back part. 



q 5° 51. Notched Falcon. — Falco bidentatus. 



The bill is brown, having two tooth-like proceffes ; the body is leaden coloured ; the 

 breaft and belly are reddifh ; the ventlet is white; the wing quills have each feveral, 

 and the tail quills each three white bars. Lath. ind. orn. i. 38. n. 9. Syn. fup. 34. no. 



Inhabits Cayenne.— Is fourteen inches long : The bars .on the outer webs of the tail quills are pale 

 brown, but on the inner webs they are white. 



15 1 52. Common Lanner.— -91. Falco Lanarhcs. 24. 



The cere is yellow ; the legs and bill are blue ; the under fide of the body is marked 

 with longitudinal black fpots. Faun. fuec. n. 62. 



F. Lanarius. Lath. ind. orn. i. 38. n. .92. — Lanarius. Gefn. av. 76. Aldr. orn. i. 488. Raj. av. 

 15. n. 13. BriiT. orn. 105. n. 16. — Lanier. Buff. oif. i. 243. — Lanneret. Albin. av. ii. t. 7. — Lan- 

 ner. Brit. zool. n. 51. t. 23. Ar£t. zool. ii. 225. k. "Will. orn. 82. n. 13. Lewin, brit. b. i. t. 

 17. — Brown Lanner. Lath. fyn. i. 86. n. 72. fup. 21. 



Inhabits Europe, the Uralian, Baraba, and Tartarian deferts, Iceland, Feroe, and Sweden, and is 

 rarely found in Britain. — This fpecies, which is about the fize of the Common Buzzard, is much 

 efteemed in Falconry ; it builds its neft on low trees, and is migratory: The legs are fhort; the cere 

 is fometimes bluifh ; the breaft is white tinged yellow, with brown fpots •, the primary wing quills 



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