136 FALCON. 



C— Falco Intermixtus, Daud. Orn. ii. 4. 



Length ten inches; breadth twenty; cere and irides yellow; 

 crown brown ; cheeks whitish, streaked with brown ; over the eye a 

 white line to the hindhead ; chin white ; neck streaked with brown 

 above, and white beneath ; ground colour of the body above brown ; 

 feathers of the rump marked with white, and tipped with grey; 

 breast and belly yellowish white, with longitudinal narrow streaks of 

 brown ; beneath the wings and Hank, the feathers marked on each 

 side of the shaft with two or three large round white spots ; quills 

 brown, banded beneath with whitish ; tail bro^vn, with three or four 

 bars of white, and the tip white ; legs yellow; claws black. 



This was described from one brought from Carolina, by M. 

 Bosc, and seems not very materially to ditFer tiom our Merlin. 



58— STONE FALCON. 



Falco Lithofalco, JhJ, Onu i. 47, Gm. Lhu i, 278. Bris. i. 349. Id. 8vo. 101. 



Raii, \A. Will. 47. Frisch.i.Sd. Shatv's Zod. Vu. 182. p\.2i. Tem. Man. 



Ed. ii. p. 27. 

 Le Rochier, Buf. i. 285. PI. enl. 447. 

 Stone Falcon, Gen. Si/n. i. 97. Will. Engl. p. 80. 



LENGTH about 12 inches ; bill blue, \vith a dusky tip ; cere 

 and irides yellow ; top of the head ash-colour ; the middle of each 

 feather dusky down the shaft; the rest of the head, neck, and 

 under parts rufous; the feathers margined with yellowish white. 



