294 FALCON. 



243— GUIANA FALCON. 



Falco superclliosus, Ind. Orn. i. 45. Lin, i. 128. Gm. Lin. i. 28. Daud, ii. 12-3. 



Shaw'sZool.vn. 191. 

 Guiana Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 102. No. 87. 



SIZE of a Magpie. Bill black ; cere and eyelids yellow ; lore 

 tliiiily beset witli black bristles; eyebrows prominent, naked beneath ; 

 plumage above brown, barred on the rump Math white and black ; 

 beneath white ; the belly undulated with fine transverse black lines ; 

 vent white, with black lines ; prime quills ferruginous, with many 

 bands of black ; secondaries whitish on the posterior margin ; tail 

 black, crossed with two paler broad bands, tip cinereous; legs yellow; 

 claws black. 



Inhabits Surinam. I have received one similar, but smaller, 

 from Cayenne, which I suppose to be the male — it greatly resembled 

 the male Sparrow-Hawk, being much of the same make and 

 proportion. 



244.— PIED SPARROW-HAWK. 



L'Epervier noir & blanc, Voy, d'Azara iii. No. 28. 



THIS is in size and make like the Sparrow-Hawk. Bill black; 

 cere bluish ; irides cinnamon-colour ; throat, fore part of the neck, 

 all the under parts of the body, and wing coverts white, but the 



