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LAN NER. GrassIf 
si. LAnner. The Lanner. Wil. orn. 8z. FalcoLanarius. Lin. fff. 1294 — 
DeEscripP. 
Lanarius. Raii /yn. av. 15. Faun. Suec. fp. 62 
HIS fpecies breeds in Ireland: the bird our 
defcription is taken from, was caught in a 
decoy in Lincolnfhire, purfuing fome wild ducks 
under the nets, and communicated to us by Taylor 
White Efg; under the name of the Lanner. 
It was lefs than the buzzard. The cere was of 
a pale greenith blue; the crown of the head of a - 
brown and yellow clay color: above each eye, 
to the hind part of the head, paffed a broad white 
line; and beneath each, a black mark pointing 
down: the throat white: the breaft tinged with 
dull yellow, and marked with brown fpots pointing » 
downwards : the thighs and vent fpotted in the fame 
manner: back and coverts of the wings deep brown, 
edged with a paler: quil feathers dufky: the inner 
webs marked with oval ruft colored pel the tail 
was fpotted like the wings. 
The legs fhort and ftrong, and of a bluifh caft, 
which Mr. Willughby fays, are the characters of that 
bird. We are here to obferve, that much caution 
is to be ufed in defcribing the hawk kind, no 
birds being fo liable to change their colors the two” 
or three firft years of their lives: inattention to this 
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