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rous bird, not unlike to a Sparrow-Haw^. From the Bill to the end of the Tail it was 



four Palms, or fixteen Inches long. The Feet were of a pale colour, .mixt as it were Irs Length.; 



of yellowilhand green. The Back black: But the tips of the feathers of the Head ThecSr 



and Back ( efpecially the lower part of it ) were compafled with reddiih Semicircles. 



The feathers of the Wings were blacker : And the infide of the Wings [ that which is 



toward the body ] fpotted with great pale-red fpots. The Breaft varied with whitifh 



and brown fpots. Certain yellowifh white feathers made up fpots behind the Ears, 



and in the Neck. The Eyes were black; the colour of the Bill blue. The Tail-fea- T Ji e Eyes and 



there, all but the two middlemoft, marked with fpots. BllL 



{. IX. 



*The Tunis or Barbary Falcon. 



THis BeUonius defcribes thus : This Barbary Falcon is large, approaching to the 

 fhapeand likenefs of a Fanner. For it hath like feathers, and not unlike Feet 5 

 but it is leffer-bodied. Befides it flies more, and keeps longer on the Wing. It hath a 

 thick and round Head. * It is good for Brook-hawking, and ftoutly foars on high in 

 the Air i But for the Field it is not fo fit as the Fanner. 



The Falcon which our Falconers call the Barbary is leffer than the reft of this kind, 

 viz. The Peregrine, Mountain and Gentile : If thofe do fpecifically differ, which we do 

 not think. • 



|. X. 

 *The Red Falcon. 



IT is called red, not becaufe it is all over red, but becaufe thole fpots ( which id 

 the reft are white ) in this kind are red and black, but notfo difpofed as in others, 

 neither in the Back, nor in the outward, part of the Wing. But it doth not appear to 

 be red,but only when it ftretches out its Wings: For then the dark red ftiews itfelf in 

 them. It is laid to be lefler than a Peregrine Falcon. But this, and whatever elfe Al- 

 berta* and others have delivered concerning the red Falcon, are of that nature, that 

 they leave us altogether uncertain, whether there be any fueh Falcon or no, fpecifical- 

 ly diftin&from the reft of this kind. 



*. XI. ; 



•* The red Indian Falcons of Aldrdvandus. 



THe firft of thefe ( which we fuppofe to be the Femaje ) hath a greater head than its Hcadj 

 the latter, a broad and almoft flat Crown, without any riling in the hinder 

 part of the head, as is feen in fome. The head is of an auYcolour tending to brown, 

 as is alfo the Neck, the whole Back, and the outfideof the Wings. The Beak very Eeak . 

 thick 5 next the Head both above and below all yellow 5 having a moderate ain-co- 

 loured hook 5 of which colour is alfo all that fore-part which is bare, beyond the 

 Sear or inverting Membrane. The Pupil of the Eye is of a deep black 5 theJw Eyes , 

 brown, or o£ a dark Chefhut-colour. The edges of tfie Eye-lids round about yel- 

 low. From the exteriour and lefler corner of the Eyes on both fides is drawn a long 

 ftroak of the fame colour with the Breaft. The whole Breaft, and alfo the upper part Breaft. 

 of the infide of the Wings, the Belly moreover and the Rump, the Hips and Thighs 

 are all -fulvous or red, of a pale Vermilion colour. But the Chin in this red colour china 

 is marked with a long cinereous fpot, produced downwards. The Breaft alfo be- 

 fore is befprinkled with fmall fcattering fpecks of the fame colour. The fides, that 

 are covered with the middle part of the Wings clofed, are tincfured with the fame 

 dark cinereous colour. The Wings are very long, their tips reaching much further wings; 

 than the middle of the Tail 3 crofting one another about the lower end of the Back. 

 The Train is long, each feather whereof is varied with alternate (paces of black Tr.ain. 

 (which are the narrower, of a Semicircular figure ) and of afti-colour, which are 

 the broader. The Legs and Feet are yellow, pretty thick and ftrong: The Talons The Feet, 

 black and very (harp. and Talons, 



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