FALCON. 269 



I received an account of two of these from Mr. Abbot, of 

 Georgia, with drawings. He observes, that the male is 29 in. long, 

 and 40 broad. The general distribution of colours not unlike the 

 aboA e description, yet differing in being darker ; breast marked with 

 bars nearly black, and the markings continued lower down. 



The yonng males have tlie markings much paler, the wings of 

 a browner red, and the feathers of the head pale and naiTow, giving 

 a flat, bald appeai'ance; quills and tail black, with the bars whitish. 

 The female less beautiful ; this sex having the red on the shoulders 

 less distinct, and less mottled with white on the upper parts ; the 

 tail, too, differs in being pale brown, Avith six paler brown bars. 



212.— CAYENNE FALCON. 



Falco Cayanensis, Ltd. Orn. i. 28. Gm. Lin. i. 164. Daud. ii. 74. Shaw's Zool. vii. 



p. 160. 

 Petit Autour de Cayenne, Bii/^u 237. PI. enl. 473. 

 Cayenne Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. 59. 



LENGTH 16 in. Bill blue; irides orange; head, and hind 

 part of the neck bluish white ; back and wings dark ash-colour ; 

 from the throat to the vent nearly white ; quills black, secondaries 

 baned vvdth black ; tail crossed with four or five alternate bars of 

 black and white, the black ones the broader; tip white ; legs short, 

 blue ; claws black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — From the shortness of the legs, seems to 

 have some affinity to the Lanner, but as the wings reach to more 

 than two-thirds on the tail, it may with more probability belong to 

 the Goshawk. 



