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TAIL. 
DescrIP. 
Ral N «Gy. T) A, LL. Geese 
Thefe birds are extremely deftructive to young 
poultry, and to the feathered game: they fly near 
the ground, fkimming the furface in fearch of 
prey. They breed on the ground, and never are 
obferved to fettle cn trees. 
Subbuteo. Ge/ner. av. 48. Une autre oyfeau St. Martin, 
Ringtail. Pygargus accipiter. Belon av. 104. 
Rati fyn. av. 17. Wil. Rubetarius Turneri. La fou- 
orn. 70. bufe. Hiff. dOys. I. 215. 
Le faucon a collier. Brifoz Brunnich No. 14. Br. Zool. 
av. 1. 345. Pl. Enl. 443; 68. Tab. 4. 7. 
and 480. 
HE rinctait weighs fixteen ounces: is 
twenty inches long; and three feet nine 
inches broad: the cere and irides yellow: on the 
hind part of the head, round the ears to the chin, 
is a wreath of fhort {tiff feathers of a dufky hue, tipt 
with a reddifh white: on the top of the head, and 
the cheeks, the feathers are dufky, bordered with 
ruft color; under each eye is a white fpot: the 
back is dufky, the rump white, with oblong yel- 
lowifh {pots on each fhaft: the tail is long; the two 
middle feathers marked with four dufky, and four 
broad cinereous bars; the others with three black, 
and three tawny bars; but the tips of all, white: 
the breaft and belly are of a yellowifh brown, with 
a caft of red, and marked with oblong dufky fpots, 
but 
