138 FALCON, 



59 —SIBERIAN FALCON. 



Falcoregulus, Jnc?. Orn. i. 50. Gm. Lin. u 28b. Pallas. It. W, 207. Daud. ii. U6, 



Skate's Zool. Tii. 207. 

 Siberian Falcon, Gen. St/n. i. 113. 



THIS is a very small species, but has the bill and air of the 

 Kestril. Cere greenish ; irides brown ; crown hoary brown, with 

 blackish lines; round the neck a ferruginous collar; back hoary 

 lead-colour, the shafts of the feathers brown ; throat, and under parts 

 whitish, marked with numerous, ferruginous brown spots ; margin of 

 the wings white, variegated beneath ; tail even at the end, hoary 

 lead-colour, with clouded bands below; all the feathers edged with 

 Ijlack, and tipped with white ; legs deep yellow. 



Inhabits Siberia; feeds chiefly on larks, and is not common. 

 This, Dr. Pallas observes, is the least of all the Falcons yet known. 



*♦ AFRICAN AND ASIATIC. 

 60.— CROWNED EAGLE. 



Falco coronatus, /nd. Or«. i. p.4. Lin.Syst.'u 124. Gm. iiin. i: 253. JDawd. ii. 38. 



Shaw's Zool, y'\\. 16. t.l6. 

 Aquila Africana cristata, Bris. i. 448. Id. 8vo. 128. 

 Crowned Eagle, Geii. Syn. i. 27. Edw. pi. 224. 



THIS is one-third less than a large Eagle ; not more than two 

 feet in length ; bill and cere ferrugmous ; irides orange red ; fore part 



