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ORD. I. GEN. I. FALCON. 



SPE. XIII. SPOTTED FALCON. 



PI. 13. 



Falco Verficolor. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. :i2. No. 73. 

 Spotted Falcon. Br. Zool. I. No. 55, PL 26. 



This falcon is the fize of a buzzard. The bill is of a dark horn colour : 

 cere and eyes yellow : crown of the head, and hind part of the neck, white ; 

 fpotted with reddifh brown: back and wings of the latter colour; feathers 

 edged with white : quills dull black, barred with grey : under parts and rump 

 white : on the neck and breaft a few reddifh brown fpots : the middle feathers 

 of the tail white, barred with deep brown: legs yellow, and very ftrong. 



Two of thefe birds have been fliot at Longnor in Shropfliirej but we have 

 no account of their being met with elfewhere in Great Britain. 



