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O^^lTHOLOgt. Book II. 



* Sparrow- 

 hawk. 



This Bird is Efficiently characterized by its uniform brown-bay or ferrugineous co- 

 lour all the body over. 



$. VII. 



* The Brafdian Kite called Caracara, and by the Portugnefe Gaviaon. Marggrav. 



| T is a kind of * Nifus of the bignefs of a Kite 5 hath a Tail nine Inches long. The 

 1 length of the Wings is fourteen Inches 5 which yet do not reach to the end of the 

 Tail. The colour of the whole Plumage is tawny with white and yellow (pecks. The 

 Tail is particoloured of white and brown. It hath a Hawks Head, a hooked Bill of a 

 moderate bignefs, and black colour. It hath yellow Legs 3 Hawks Feet 3 femicircular, 

 long, (harp, black Talons. ItisverynoifomtoHens. 



I had (faith he) another of the fame magnitude and colour with the precedent, 

 fave that the breaftand belly were white. The Eyes of a gold colour, and the skin 

 about them yellow. The Legs yellow. 



For the bignefs, colour, and preying upon Poultry, we have fubjoyned this to the 

 Kites notwithftanding Marggravius makethit a kind of -Nifus or Sparrorohawk. 



M 



* Family or 

 kind. 



Its Name. 



Chap. IX. 

 Of long-winged Ha^h, ufedto be reclaimed for fowling. 



^ 1. 



* Of the Peregrine Falcon. 



R.. Willughbji having left no defcription of a Falcon, and it having not been 

 our hapfincehis deceafeto fee any Hawk of that kind, left the Ornithology 

 we fet out fhould be defective and imperfect in this particular, we have bor- 

 rowed of Aldrovandus the defcriptions of the leveral forts of Falcons without omit- 

 ting any. We are not a little troubled that we cannot give any light to this * Qenus : 

 For we vehemently fufpect, that Species are here multiplied without neceffity. - 



Aldrovandus affigns the firft place to the Peregrine Falcon for its courage andgene- 

 rofity. It took its name either from palling out of one Country into another, or be- 

 caufe it is not known where it builds, its Neft having not been any where found. Of 

 this kind Belifariusmzk.es two Species, Carcanus four, the difference being taken from 

 the colour. 



A Peregrine Falcon every way compleat muft have thefe marks, Broad and thick 

 its Shoulders, moulders 5 long Wings reaching to the end of the Train 5 the Train long, narrower 

 by little and little, and {harper toward the end, like a Sparrow-hawks, made up of 

 large, thick, round feathers, the tip not altogether white 5 the fhafts running along 

 the middle of the feathers of a lovely red 5 the Feet of the fame colour with thole 

 of a Bittonr, viz,, of a pale green, or between a yellow and lead-colour 5 the Toes 

 flender^ the Talons large, black, and very (harp 5 the colour of the Feet and Beak 

 the fame t, the Thighs long, but the Legs friort} the Beak thick 5 the Mouth wide 5 

 the Nares large and open 5 the Eye-brows high and great 3 the Eyes great, and deep 

 funk \ the Head arched, the Crown being gently elevated and round. As fbon as 

 it can fly it mould (hew certain little briftly feathers, ftanding out as it were a beard. 

 Let the Neck be long, the Breaft broad, and about the Shoulder-blades where it 

 joyns to the Neck fomewhat round. Sitting upon the Fift it muft bend its body a 

 little backward, being brisk, mordacious and greedy. Let its Eye-brows and Cheeks 

 be white with a little mixture or dam of red : The Eyes black, encompafled with a 

 Circle or Iris that is fometimes blue 5 the Head afh-coloured, like that of a Sacre : 

 The Back of fomewhat a livid colour, almoft like that of a Goofe 5 covered with 

 round and broad feathers. The marks of the Wings agree to the fecond Peregrine 

 Falcon of Belifarius, which he makes to be of a Copper [_JEneo ~] colour. For the 

 firft kind, which he faith is blacker, hath neither an afh-coloured Crown, nor a yel- 

 low $ and hath its throat fpotted with long, direct, black lines 3 and its Thighs 

 marked with tranfverfe ones : Its Legs alfo are of a Saffron colour, but more 

 dilute. 



Aldrovandus 



Wings, 

 Train. 



The Feet, 

 Toes, 

 Talons, 



Thighs, 

 Eeak, 

 Nares, 

 Eyes. 

 Head. 

 Its Neck, 

 Ereaft, 



Drows, 



Eyes. 

 Head, 



Eack. 



