PLA. E .xXCL 
FALCO SUBBUTEO. 
HOBBY. 
a ACCIPITRES. 
Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in each 
margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 
and more beautiful than the males. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like mem- 
pe” ieee 
brane, or cere. ae 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
sae” a ND 
SYNONYMS. 
Cere yellow. Back brown. Back of the head white. Body pale 
with oblong brown fpots. Legs yellow. — 
Fatco Sugsurezo: cera pedibufque flavis, dorfo fufco, nucha albo, 
abdomine pallido maculis oblongis fufcis.—Linn. 
Syft. Nat. I. p. 89. 12. edit. 10. 
Dendre Falco, Rati. Syn. p.14. No.8. 
Heer Subbuteo, p. 15. No. 14. 
I wena.) S ABGilon, 
