FALCON. ' 117 



45— SACRE FALCON. 



Falco sacer, /«(/. Orn. i. 34. G»i. Lin. \. -273. Biis.i. 337. Id. Svo.i)S. Rait, p. 13; 



Will. p. 44. Klein. Ak. 7. p. 48. Gerin. i. t. 28. Bechst. Denis, ii. s. 298. Baud. 



Orn. vi. p. 96. 

 Sacre, Gen. Syn. i p. 77. Id. Sup. p. 20. Jrct. Zool. ii. No. 96. Buf. i. 246. pi. 14. 



W^i//. jE?ig-/. p. 77. 



THIS the size of the Jerfalcon ; bill and le2:.s blue ; ej^es black ; 

 the back, upper ^ving coverts, and breast spotted with brown ; thighs 

 white within ; tail rather long, marked with kidnej-shaped spots, and 

 the wings when closed reach to the end of it; the legs feathered 

 almost to the toes. It is remarked in Willughby, that these birds 

 have a " great round head, a shorter beak, a slenderer and longer body 

 in proportion ; longer wings, and also a longer tiain ; a breast less 

 rieshy and tiill in respect of their body than Jerfalcons, and also 

 shorter toes." It is thought by some to be merely a variety of the 

 common Falcon, though by others a distinct species. 



Inhabits various parts of Europe, also Tartary ; in the latter used 

 for Falconry, and we believe formerly in England ; yet is not found 

 there at large. M. Beckstein says, that one of the names in Germany 

 is the British Falcon. 



A.— Falco sacer. Ph. Trans. Ixii. .383. 423. 



American Sacre, Speckled Partridge Hawk, Gen. Syn: i. 78. Id^ Sup. 20. Arct. 

 Zool. ii. No. 96. 



Dr. Forster says, the length is 22 in. ; breadth 3ft. ; weight 2^ 

 pomids ; the irides are yellow ; head whitish, with largish streaks of 

 brown ; throat white spotted with brown ; general plumage above 

 bro^vn, the feathers spotted, and edged ferruginous ; the spots not 

 touching the shafts j the under parts white, with longish, dark brown 



