520 BIRDS.. RAPACIOUS* Falcons^ 



gated with black and white ; the eye-brows are naked and prominent on the under edges; the ftraps 

 are befet with black divaricating briftles ; the bill and claws are black ; the lower wing coverts are 

 white, with very fine fhort black lines. 



iyS 71. Ingrian Falcon. — in. Falco vefperlinus. 23. 



The cere, legs, and eyelids, are yellow ; the ventlet and thighs are rufty.. 8. G. GmeL. 

 it. i. 67. ii. 163. Lepechin, it. i. 230.. 



F. vefpertinus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 46. 109. — Kobez, Derbnitfchok. Decouv. ruff. ii. 142. — In- 

 grian Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 102. n. 88. fup. 27. 



Inhabits Ingria, the whole of Ruflia, and Siberia.T— This fpecies builds on the very topmoft branches • 

 of trees, or expels Magpies from their nefts, and takes poffeffion; it preys much on Quails, and goes 

 abroad chiefly in the evening and night. It is about the fize of a Pigeon ; the body is bluifh red ; 

 the belly is bluifh white ; the head is brown, having a yellow bill, with a brown tip ; the tail has 

 twelve quill feathers, which are brown on both furfaces; the wing quill feathers are bluifh white, the 

 fjrft feven primaries being tipt with blackifh ; the legs are naked. 



3,79 72. Permian Falcon. — 112. Falco vefpertino'idts. 114. 



The cere, legs, and eyelids, are yellow ; the thighs are black ; the neck, bread, and; 

 belly, are brownilh with white fpots. Falk. it. hi. 329,. 

 F. vefpertinoides. Lath. ind,. orn. i, 46. no. 



Inhabits Permia, and the Ifettenfian and Bafchkirian diftri&s of Siberia. — This fpecies is only about: 

 half the fize of the one immediately preceding, and weighs very little more than two ounces. 



180 73. Great- billed Falcon. — 1 13. Falco magnirojlris. 115, 



The cere and legs are yellow; the body is brown above, and white, with rufty ftreak%. 

 beneath ; the tail is barred with black and white.. 



F. mngniroftris. Lath. ind. orn. i. 46. n. i n. — Epervier a gros bee, de Cayenne.. Buff", oif, i. 

 237. PI. enl. n. 464, — Great-billed Falcon. Lath. fyn. i. 103. n. 89. fup. 27. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — This fpecies is larger than the Sparrow Hawk, but. has fh'orter legs, and the ' 

 bill, which is black, is confiderably thicker and longer ; the hides are orange coloured ; the feathers , 

 on the upper part of the body and breaft are brown, with rufty edges ; the claws are black. . 



1.8 1. 74, Criard Falcon. — Falco vociferus> 



The legs are yellow; the body is of a grey afh colour, its under parts white;-the larger, 

 and lefier wing coverts are black. Lath. ind. orn. i. 46. n. 112. Syr*, fup. 38. 

 Petit Bufe criarde. Sonner. voy. ii. 184. 



Inhabits India. — This fpecies is about the fize of a Pigeon ; it. lives much' in the rice fields, prey- 

 ing on frogs, and is very clamorous en the approach of mankind : The bill is fhort ; the hides are 

 yellow ; the orbits are red and naked, and the eye-lids arc furnifhed with eyc-lafhes. 



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