FALCON. . 173 



Among the drawings of IVIr. Dent I observe a slight variety ; in 

 this, the feathers of the crown are full, loose, and black ; under 

 parts of the body dull ferruginous, with roundish white spots ; quills 

 barred t^yo or three times with white within ; the band across the tail, 

 and the tip pure white. 



98.^LONG-LEGGED FALCON. 



Falco Acoli, Ind. Orn. Sup. pAx. Daud.n. 176. Levail. Ois. i. 126. pi. 33. Shaw's 



Zool.vu. 172. 

 Long-legged Hen-Harrier, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 42, 



THIS in size and colour resembles the Hen-Harrier, but stands 

 higher on its legs; the bill is bluish ; cere red ; irides yellow ; the 

 under parts, from the breast, crossed with fine, dusky, linear stripes, 

 in the manner of the Chanting Falcon, though neither so numerous 

 nor delicate; indeed, it might at first sight be taken for that bird on 

 a larger scale, did not the great disproportion of legs at once shew 

 the difiTerence. The tail is pale grey, and pretty long, even at the 

 end, and not graduated as in the Chanting species ; the qviills 

 dusky black, and reach two-thirds on the tail ; legs yellow. 



Inhabits the cultivated parts of the Cape of Good Hope ; and 

 found not unfrecpiently in the sandy desarts. In the interior parts 

 only observed about the rivers Swarte-kop and Sondag. Called 

 Witte-Valk (^Vliite Falcon) and Leeuwerk-vanger (Lark catcher). 

 The male and female seen usually together — makes the nest in the 

 bushes, and lays four dirty white eggs, oval in shape ; on the con- 

 trary, the eggs of the Chanting Falcon are nearly round. 



