290 FALCON. 



The above is probably a female; I have met with two smaller 

 ones, which we may suppose were males ; the first of them was only 

 nine inches in length; the bars on the back not very conspicuous ; 

 chin plain white ; the throat alone orange ; space round the eyes 

 sparingly furnished with feathers ; the second about ten inches long^ 

 and had a large rufous patch on the throat ; in the middle of this a 

 spot of white ; plumage above brown black, barred with bluish ; 

 breast and belly the same, barred with white ; lower belly, thiglis, 

 and vent rufous ; legs orange. 



The first inhabits Surinam — the other two brought from. Cayeune- 



238.~LITTLE FALCON 



Male. — Falco Sparverius, Ind. Orn. i. 42. Lin. i. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 284. Faun. Amer. 



sept. tit. praefix. Daud.W. 142. Shaw's Zool. vii. 199, t. 26. Vieill. Amer. i. 



p. 40, pi. 12, 1.3. Amer. Orn: ii. pi. 16, f. 1. Id. iv. pi. 32, f. 2- 

 jEsalon carolinensis, Bris. i. 386. t. 32, f. 1. Id. 8to. 112.- 

 Falco vertice vel rubro vel luteo, Klein. Av. p. 51. 

 Falco minor rufescens. Brown. Jam. 471. 

 Esmerillon bruu et bleuatve, Voy. d'Azara, 3, No. 40 ? 

 Esmerillon de Cayenne, Buf. i. 291. pi. enl. 444. 



Esmerillon Gry Gry, Raii Syn. p. 19, No. 3. Du Tertre Antil. ii, 253- Daud. ii. 138. 

 Little Falcon, Gen. Syn. i, 110 Gates. Car.\. pl.-5. Arct. ZooL ii. No. 110.. 



Female. — Falco dominicensis. Gin. Lin, i. 285. Daud. ii. 143. 



.S^salon dominicensis, Bris. i. 389. t. 33. f. 2. Id. 8vo. 112. pi. enl. 465.. 



New-York Merlin, Gen. Syn. i. '98. A. 



St. Domingo Merlin, Gen. Syn. i. p. 111. Arct. Zool. ii. 212. 



THE male is the size of the common Merlin ; length lOin. 

 breadth 21 ; weight 3| oz. bill bluish ; cere and irides yellow ; 



