70 FALCON. 



Brisson, who first mentions it, took the above description 

 from a specimen in the museum Of Madame de Bandeville. M. 

 Daudin supposes it to be a young male of the rough-footed 



species. 



A. — La Buse gante, Levaill, Ois. i. p. 79. pi. 18. Daud. ii. 163. 

 Booted Falcon, Gen. Syn, Sup. ii. p. 24. 



This seems to vary but little from the former ; the chief dis- 

 tinction is, in having a less mixture of white in the plumage. This 

 variety is met with about the Cape of Good Hope, particularly in 

 the forest of Hottniqua, and frequents the woody parts distant 

 from habitations, living for the most part singly. Is said to oe a 

 bold bird, more so than some others; quick in flight, and often 

 seizes partridges. 



19.— SCLAVONIAN EAGLE. 



Falco sclavonicus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 26. Kram. el. 329. It. Poseg. p. 29. Daud. ii. 166. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 171. Tern. Man. d'Om. p. 22. 

 Sclavonian Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii, p.- 24. 



SIZE of a fowl ; bill dusky blue ; cere yellow ; irides dusky ; 

 head, neck, and breast, buif colour, streaked with black ; belly 

 black, in some spotted ; quills dusky ; secondaries brown, banded 

 with black; >ving coverts spotted rufous, testaceous, and black; 

 tail white from the base to beyond the middle ; brown towards the 

 end, the margins of the feathers testaceous ; in some crossed with 



