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FALCON. 



233— LAUGHING FALCON. 



Pialco cachinnans, Ind. Om. i. 37. Lin. i. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 277. Daud. ii. 116. 



Shaw's Zool. vii. 156. 

 Le Faucon noiratre & blanc, Voy. d'Azara iii. No 34. 

 Laughing Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. S5. 



THIS short description is given by Linnasus. Cere and legs' 

 luteous; eyelids white; body brown and whitish mixed ; all beneath 

 white; tail banded kiteovis and black. 



Inhabits America ; on seeing any one, it is said to set up a kind 

 of laugh ; possibly it may differ in sex from the following. 



Length 16 in. Crown dashed with brown ; on the wings, when 

 closed, a large buff-coloured spot, crossed Avith slender brown stripes ; 

 this arises from the greater quills, all of which, except the two first, 

 fUe buff-coloured in the middle ; beneath the body whitish, breast 

 and belly dashed here and there with brown, some of the featliers 

 wholly brown ; thighs pale buff, obsoletely streaked with brown. 



Inhabits Caj enne ; called Pagani gris tachete. One of these, 

 said to be met with in Parag-uay, in October, near twenty inches 

 long, and fiftj -eight broad. 



234.— WHITE-FRONTED FALCON. 



IN this the bill is black ; cere sky-blue ; irides yellow ; forehead 

 white, from thence to the top of the head a streak of white, half an 

 inch broad ; between this and the eye mixed deep brown and white ; 



