228 ROUGH LEGGED FALCON. Class II 



13. Rough Falco lagopus. F. cera pedi- Rough legged Falcon. Br.Zool. 

 Legged. busque pennatis luteis, corpore ii. App. 529. Arct. Zoot. i. 



fusco exalbido vario, rectrici- 233. Dusky Falcon? ib. i. 

 bus fuscis basi dimidia api- 248. 



ceque albis. Lath. Ind.orn. 19. Falco lagopus. Gm. Lin. 260. 

 id. Syn. i. 75. id. Sup. i. 18. Brunnich, No. 15. Leems. 



Lapon. 236. 



J-HIS species is a native of Denmark, but 

 was shot near London, and was preserved in the 

 Leverian museum. 

 Descrip- Its length is two feet two inches ; that of the 

 wing, when closed,, eighteen inches ; the bill 

 dusky : the cere and irides yellow : the head, 

 neck and breast of a yellowish white, marked in 

 some parts with oblong brown strokes : the 

 belly of a deep brown; thighs and legs of a 

 pale yellow, marked with brown ; the scapulars 

 blotched with brown and yellowish white ; co- 

 verts of the wings brown, edged with rust co- 

 lor ; ends of the primaries deep brown ; the 

 lower parts white : the extreme half of the tail 

 brown, tipt with dirty white ; the part next to 

 the body white. Legs covered with feathers as 

 low as the feet: feet yellow; claws black*. 



TION. 



* The editor received a specimen which had been shot in 

 Suffolk, exactly corresponding with the above description. An- 



