FALCON. 277 



of the tail clay-colour, the rest of the length light, barred Avith 

 black, the bars crossing some of the feathers obliquely ; legs yellow. 

 Inhabits Newfoundland. 



222.— NEWFOUNDLAND FALCON. 



Falco novEe terree, Ind. Orn. i. 34. Gm. Lin: i. 274. Daud. ii. lOG. Shaw's Zool. vii. 



147. 

 Newfoundland Falcon, Gen. Si/n. i. 79. Brit. Zool, ii. 95. 



LENGTH 20 in. Bill pale ash, tip black; cere yellow; irides 

 deep yellow ; plumage above brown ; nape ferruginous ; back, wing 

 coverts, and scapulars, with paler margins ; cheeks tinged with 

 ash-colour; belly ferruginous, with dark irregular blotches; vent 

 clay-colour ; thighs mottled ash, with round dark spots ; the lower 

 feathers with four great blotches of the same ; tail barred deeper and 

 paler brown, four bars in all ; legs strong, yellow, feathered half 

 way down. 



Inhabits Newfoundland ; probably allied to the last. 



