284 FALCON. 



narrow, wliite streaks ; beyond the eye a pale-coloured one ; all 

 beneath the body white ; fore part of the neck, the breast, and belly, 

 streaked with reddish brown down the shafts ; thighs dirty white, 

 streaked with brown; tail crossed with three bars of dark brown, the 

 end pale. Another, supposed to be the female, had the longitudinal 

 streaks beneath more numerous, besides some transverse bars of light 

 brown ; the legs in both slender, as in the Sparrow-Hawk, and of 

 the same colour. 



Described from the collection of the late Sir A'. Lever, and pro- 

 bably is the same bird referred to in Miller's plates, in which the 

 irides are very pale, nearly white, but the claws ai'e so remarkably 

 thick and short, as to make it probable, that there was some inac- 

 curacy in the engraving. 



231.— RUFOUS-BELLIED FALCON. 



Falco rufiventris, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. viii. Encyc. Meth. p. 687. Darid. Orn. ii, p. 86. 

 Epervier bleuatre, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 26 ? 

 Rufous-bellied Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 39. 



SIZE of the SpaiTow-Hawk. Bill blue; head cinereous brown, 

 paler at the nape ; throat whitish in the middle, and rufous on each 

 side ; upper part of the body deep brown ; the under rufous ; vent 

 nearly white ; legs yellow ; claws black. 



Tlie female is paler in colour. 



Inhabits Cayenne. 



