98 FALCON. 



D. — Falco Buffoni. Ind.Orn.i. p.40. y. Cm. Lin.]. 277. Daud.n. 172. 

 Cayenne Ringtail, Gen.Syn.\. p. 91. A. Shaw's Zool.v'u. 1G6. 



Length two feet; bread tli four; bill black; cere blue; parts 

 above chocolate brown ; fore part of the neck the same, but paler ; 

 on the hindhead a little mixture of white ; round the ears, on each 

 .side, a kind of wreath, conspicuous in all the former described; over 

 the eyes a pale yellow line, from the bill, meeting the wreath behind ; 

 chin whitish; from this to the breast buif-colovn- ; beneath the body 

 reddish buff, streaked w ith brown ; rump white ; all tlie tail feathers 

 liarred pale and dark brown ; most of the inner Avebs w hitish, and 

 the tip veiy pale ; legs yellow, claws black ; the wings, when closed, 

 reach to the middle of the tail. 



Inhabits Cayenne — a specimen, in the collection of Miss 

 Blomefield, was entitled Due de JBvffon. 



A bird, similar to this, if not the same, is known in Georgia, 

 by the name of Tawny Hawk ; it answers very nearly to the last 

 description, but all the under parts ai*e pale rufous, marked on the 

 throat and breast \^ itli brown streaks, the belly and thighs with deeper 

 nifous ones; two middle tail feathers brown ash, with four brown 

 ]jars, the one nearest the end twice as broad as the others; end 

 whitish. This is 18 in, in length; 3ft 4 in. broad, and said to be 

 rarely met \vith. 



M. d'Azara mentions a bird, common about Paraguay, which 

 answers, in many respects, to the Ringtail, and supposes it to be the 

 same, but his annotator does not allow of it. 



