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FALCON. 



spots ; quills black brown ; margins and ends of the prime quills 

 white, transversely spotted within with pale ferruginous; lesser 

 quills marked with round spots on the outsides. 



Inhabits North America, about Hudson's Bay ; called Speckled 

 Partridge Hawk ; migrates ; preys on the white grouse ; breeds in 

 April and May in desart places ; the females lay two eggs ; the young 

 fly the middle of June. 



46.— MOUNTAIN FALCON, 



Falco montanus, Ind. Orii. i. p. 48. Gm. Lin. i. 278. Bris. 1. 352. Id. 8vo. 101. 

 Raii, p. 1-3. Will. p. 45. Klein. Av. p. 52. Daud. ii. 128. Shaw's Zool. vii. 183. 

 Mountain Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p, 93. Will. Engl. p. 78. 



LESS than the Peregrine Falcon, with a shorter tail ; bill 

 black ; plumage above brown, or ash-colom; throat and forepart of 

 the neck whitish, spotted with either ferruginous or black ; tail ash- 

 coloured, end black, very tip white ; legs yellow, claws black ; 

 described in brief fiom M. Brisson, who observes, that when the 

 bird is come to its full colour, the head is black ; and the oftener is 

 has moulted, the more white is seen in the breast j with the back and 

 sides of a deeper ash colour. 



A. — Falco montanus cinereus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 48. 116. /3. Bris. u 355. id, 8vo. 102. 

 Falco montanus secundus Aldr. Will. t. 9. 

 Ash-coloured Mountain Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 94. 



Length 1ft. 9 in. ; bill black; irides yellow; general colour of 

 the plumage cinereous, paler on the wing coverts ; beneath white at 

 snow; legs luteous. 



