222 GENTIL FALCON. Class II. 



g. Gentil. Falcogentilis. F. cera pedibusque Rail syn. av. Arct. ZopL 

 flavis, corpore cinereo maculis i. 237. 



fuscis, cauda fasciis quatuor Falk. Faun. Suec. sp. 58. 

 nigricantibus. Lath. Ind. orn. Kram. Austr. 328. 



2g. id. Syn. i. 64. id. Sup. 17. Falco gentilis. Brun. No. 6. 

 Gm. Lin. 2J0. Scopoli, No. 3. 



Gentil Falcon. Wil. orn. 80. L'Autour. Hist. dois. i. 230. 



Descrip- j^ HIS species is larger than the goshawk, and 



TION. r ° O ' 



of an elegant make. Cere, and legs yellow, 

 irides light yellow; pupil large and of a full 

 black : head light rust color, with oblong black 

 spots. The whole under side from chin to tail 

 white, tinged with yellow ; each feather marked 

 with heart-shaped dusky spots pointing down ; 

 back brown ; quil feathers dusky, barred on the 

 out-most web with black, on the lower part of 

 the inner with white. Coverts of the wings, and 

 the scapulars, brown edged with rust color ; 

 wings reach only one half the length of the tail. 

 The tail with four or five bars of black, and 

 the same of cinereous ; the first edged above 

 and below with a line of dull white ; the very 

 tips of all the tail feathers white. 



The young birds vary in having on their breasts 

 transverse bars instead of cordated spots, as in 

 the specimen, Plate XXIL 



