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ORD. I. GEN. I. FALCON. 



SPE. XVIir. HEN HARRIER. 

 PI. ]8. 



Falco Cyaneus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 126. No. 10. 

 Le Faucon a Collier. Brif. Orn. I. p. 345. 



This bird weighs near a pound, is feventeen inches in length, and three feet 

 three inches in breadth. The bill is of a horn colour : the cere, eyes, and 

 edges of the eyelids, are yellow : under the eye is a femicircular rim of ftiffifli 

 feathers of a pale colour, but lefs vifible in the male than in the female : the 

 plumage of the back and wings is blueifh grey : the breaft, belly, and thighs, 

 are white : the tail is grey, the inner webs of all but the two middle feathers 

 white, barred with dull black : the legs are long, flender, and yellow. 



