74 FALCON, 



with cordated small browii spots ; round the neck a white collar ; tail 

 crossed with twelve or thirteen alternate white and brown bands ; legs 

 luteous; claws black. 



InhalDits Sweden, also Greenland, but is there seldom met with ; 

 is called by the natives Millekulartok, signifying spotted — also seen 

 in the desart and open places between the Don and Wolga, in the 

 Russian dominions, but we believe is not very common any where — 

 is probably allied to the Jerfalcon. 



22— BROWN FAJLCON. 



Falco fuscus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 21. Bris. i. 331. Id. 8vo. i. 95. Gm. Lin. i. 171. 

 Vultur Pygargus, Frisch. t, 7G. 

 Brown Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. 68. 



SIZE of the Jerfalcon; bill ash-coloured; cere yellowish; head 

 brownish, marked with longitudinal rusty brown spots ; upper part 

 of the body brown, spotted with deeper brown — beneath white, 

 spotted ^vith brown, the spots on the breast lance-shaped ; tail baiTed 

 rufous white, and rusty brown ; legs yellow; claws black. 



Inhabits Europe, and is most likely also related to the Jerfalcon. 



