PLATE XCIV. 
FALCO FESALON. 
__ MERLIN. 
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 cere 
_ or membrane. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Cere yellow. Head ferruginous. Body, above bluifh. Cinereous 
fpotted and {triped with ferruginous : beneath oe with oblong 
fpots, Legs yellow. 
Fatco AXsALon: cera pedibufque flavis, capite ferrugineo, corpore 
se fupra cerules cente-cinereo maculis ftrii{que fer- 
rugineis, fubtus flavicante-albo maculis oblongis. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 49. “i 
fifalon. Bellon. & Aldr. 
| Rai. Syn. pers. No. 15. 
Meruin. Will. Orn. p. 85. 63. 
| Penn. Br. Zool. No. 63. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. V. I. p. 106. 93. 
L’Emerillon 
