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Le Gerfault. Belo av. 94 fF. Mlandus albus. Brunuich 47.GyRFaL- 
CON. 
Gyrfalco. Aldr. av. 1. 243. Finite 
Jer-falcon. Wil. orn. 78. Le Gerfault. Brifor av. I. 
Gyrfalco. Raii fyn. av. 13. 370. 
White Falcon. Wil. orn. Sib. Scot. 14. 
‘80. . Charlton Ex. 317. 
HIS elegant fpecies is not much inferior in fize Descrrp. 
to the Ojprey. The irides dufky: the bill is 
very much hooked and yellow. The throat is of a 
pure white: the whole plumage of the fame co- 
lor, but marked with dufky lines, {pots or bars: 
the head, breaft and belly with narrow lines, thinly 
{fcattered and pointing down: the wings with large 
heart-fhaped fpots: the middle feathers of the tail 
with a few bars: the feathers on the thighs are ve- 
ry long, and of a pure white; the legs of a pale 
blue, and feathered a little below the knees. ‘This 
kind is fometimes found quite white: it was a 
bird in high efteem when falconry was in vogue, 
and ufed for the nobleft game, — as cranes and 
herons. 
This is the Gyrfalco of all the ornithologifts 
except Linnzus, whofe bird we are totally unac- 
quainted with: though he gives feveral of their 
fynonyms, his defcription differs entirely from each 
of them. Inhabits the north of Scotland; fhot near 
Aberdeen. 
| Belon 
