PLATE LIX> 



FALCO CYANEUS. 

 HEN-HARRIER. 



Ac CIPITRES. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws flrong, 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 

 membrane, or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMSo 



Bill black. Cere and irides yellow. General colour blue grey ; 

 back of the head white, with pale brown fpots. Breaft, belly and 

 thighs white, with dufky ftreaks. Two middle feathers of the tail 

 grey. Legs yellow, long and flender. 



Falco Cyaneus. Lin. Syjl. i. p. 126. N° i©< 

 Lanarius albus. AUr. av, 1. 197. 

 Blue Hawk. Edw. 225. male. 

 Hen-harrier. Pennant's Brit. Tool N° 58. /, 28* 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. I. p. 88. 74, 



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