FALCON. 



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197.— CRESTED GOSHAWK. 



Falco ornatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. vii. Levail. Ois. i. pi. 26. Daud. ii, p. 77, 

 Falco superbus, Shaic's Zool. vii. p. 64. 

 Crested Goshawk, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 37. 



THIS is one-third larger than our Goshawk. Bill pale blue ; 

 cere yellow ; crown of the head black ; neck behind deep rufous ; 

 from the hindhead arises a tuft of long black and white feathers ; 

 upper part of the body and wings brown, deeper on the coverts; chin 

 and throat white ; the rest of the under parts rufous white, with irre- 

 gular black spots, and a line of black on each side of the neck, 

 between the rufous and white ; thighs barred black and white, and 

 feathered almost to the toes; tail banded brown and black ; legs dull 

 yellow. 



Inhabits Cayenne; has all the characters of the common 



Goshawk. 



A. — Falco Mauduyti, Ind. til. Sup: p. viii. Daud.W. 73. Shaiv^s Zool. y'li. p. 66. 

 Grand Autour de Cayenne, Mauduit. Encycl. Method. 

 Mauduit's Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. .38. 



This is two feet in length. Bill and cere black ; eyelids, and 

 skin between the bill and eye, covered with hairs; nape ash-coloured, 

 shafts of the feathers black, streaked with white ; cheeks white; from 

 behind the eye to the hindhead a black streak ; at the latter a long- 

 crest; the upper parts of the body black brown ; middle of the wing- 

 barred with cineieous grey ; belly white, baned with rufous brown ; 



