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as far as the breast, the same, but with a greater mixture of ferrugi- 

 nous ; belly, thighs, and vent, white, crossed with numerous, narrow, 

 ferruginous sti'iae; tail banded black and white; legs yellow, shorter 

 than in the Sparrow-Hawk ; claws black. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Buffon refers to the pi. enlum. which has 

 the bill only of the common size ; but that such a bird as the Great- 

 billed Falcon does exist, is manifest, from one sent among a collec- 

 tion from thence ; in this I observed the bill so large as to merit the 

 term monstious, from being of twice the usual size, and very hooked ; 

 the upper mandible black, the under yellow ; about the legs almost 

 bare of feathers ; plumage above as in the other, behind the neck a 

 crescent of white ; chin and fore part of the neck rufous, with a bar 

 of black at the end of each feather; under parts of the body white ; 

 thighs and parts between them rufous and white ; the tail was want- 

 ing ; the length of this last described was one foot from the tip of the 

 bill to the rump. 



230.— AMERICAN BROWN HAWK. 



Falco fuscus, /nd. Orn. i. p. -43. Gin. Lin. I 280. Mill. III. 1. 18. Daud. ii. p. 86: 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 161. 

 La Buse gallinivore, Vieillot. Amer. i. p. 33 ? 

 American Brown Hawk, Gen. Syn. i. p. 98. 



SIZE and shape of the Sparrow-Hawk. Bill pale lead-colour ; 

 cere dusky ; plumage above cinereous brown, with a trifle of white 

 on the scapulars; top and sides of the head marked with longitudinal, 



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