90 FALCON. 



Inhabits both France and Germany, near the banks of rivers 

 and ponds, feeding on frogs and small reptiles, and not unfrequently 

 on fish, which it is said to take alive out of the water, in the manner 

 of the Osprey. This is probably related to the Moor-Buzzard, 

 and, if not the same, far advanced in age. 



33.— GREY FALCON. 



Falco grlseus, Ind.Orn.i. .37. Gm. Lin.\. 275. Daud.i\. 114. 



Grey Falcon, Gen. Si/n. i. 82. Br. Zool. i. No. 49. Id.fo/. pi. 05. Id. ed. 1812. i. p. 

 221, Lewiii's Birds i. pi. 15. Orn. Diet. 



SIZE of a raven. — Bill short, strong, hooked, and blviish ; cere 

 and edges of eyelids yellow ; irides red ; head small, and iiat, deep 

 brown before, and white behind ; sides of the head and throat 

 cream-coloured ; belly white, with oblong black spots ; hind part of 

 the neck and back deep grey ; tail long, wedge-shaped, and spotted, 

 the two middle feathers plain ; the wings reach beyond the middle of 

 it ; legs long, naked, yellow. 



A bird, as above described, was shot near Halifax, in Yorkshire, 

 m the year 1762, and an account of it sent to Mr. Pennant by the 

 late Mr. Bolton, of Worley Clough. T^^e suspect it to be an im- 

 mature individual of one of our English species, for I do not find 

 that a second has ever been met with . 



