CiassilL. GENTIL FALCON. iSE 
Gentil Falcon... Wi. orn. 80. Lin. fyf?. 126. 50, GENTIL» 
Raii fyn. av. Falk. Faun. Suec. fp. 58. 
Falco gentilis. F.cere pedi- — Kram. Aujtr. 328. 
busque flavis, corpore cine- Falco gentilis. Brun. No. 6. 
reomaculis fufcis, cauda fuf- Scopoli, No. 3. 
cis quatuor nigricantibus. L’Autour. Hz/. d’ Oys.1.230+ 
HIS fpecies of an elegant make is larger than DescriP. 
the gofhawk. Cere, and legs yellow; irides _ 
light yellow: pupil large and of afull black: head 
light ruft color, with oblong black fpots: whole 
under fide from chin to tail white, tinged with 
yellow: each feather marked with heartfhaped 
dufky fpots pointing down: back brown: quil 
feathers dufky; barred om the out-moft web with 
_black, on the lower part of the inner with white. 
Coverts of the wings, and the fcapulars, brown 
edeed with ruft color: wings reach only one half 
the length of the tail. The tail barred with four 
or five bars of black, and the fame of cinereous : 
the firft edged above and below with a line of dull 
white. The very tips, all the tail feathers white. 
The young birds vary in having on their breafts 
tranfverfe bars inftead of cordated fpots, as in the 
fpecimen, Plate 
This fpecies inhabits the north of Scotland; and 
was in high efteem as a bold and fpirited bird in 
the days of falconry. It makes its neft in rocks. 
The 
