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ORD. I. GEN. I. FALCON. 



SPE. XVI. JERFALCON. 



PI. i6. 



Falco Iflandlcus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 32. No. S<). 

 Le Gerfaut. Br'tf. Orn. I. p. 370. 



This bird is the fize of the gofliawk: in length two feet, in breadth fourj 

 and weighing about three pounds. The bill is bluilh, with the tip black : cere 

 bluifh afh colour : eyes, and fkin round, pale blue : general colour of the 

 plumage white, fpotted with dull black : legs pale blue. 



This fpecies is a particular inhabitant of the north of Scotland; we have no 

 accounts of its being met with in any other part of Great Britain. 



