Ii2 i^ENTIL FALCON. 



very slight appearance of the tooth-like process on 

 each side, so conspicuous in many of the Accipl- 

 trine tribe^ but this I consider as a very uncertain 

 criterion; since in the best and most authentic 

 figures and descriptions of the Jerfalcon, the notch 

 in the bill is often very conspicuous; not to men- 

 tion, that Mr. Pennant in his Arctic Zoology 

 expressly describes the upper mandible as " sharp- 

 ly angulated on the lower edges'^ 



GENTIL FALCON. 



Falco Gentiiis. F, fuscus, ferrugineo mdulatuSf subtus albo- 

 Jlavescens maculis suhcordatis fuscis, cauda fasciis quatuor 

 nigricantibus. 



Brown Falcon with ferruginous undulations, beneath yellowish- 

 white with subcordate brown spots, the tail crossed by four 

 blackish bars. 



Falco gentiiis. 1\ cera pedibusque Jlavis, corpore cinereo maculis 



fuscis, Cauda fasciis quatuor nigricantibus, Lin, Si/st, Nat» 

 Falco montanus ? Rati. syn. p. 13, 

 Falcon gentle. Will. orn. p. 79* 



Gentil Falcon. Penn. Brit, Zool. p. 154. pi, 21. Lath, syn, 

 \.p,6^, 



Faucon Gentil. Daudin orn. p, 102. 



This is described as a degree larger than the 

 Goshawk; with the head brown-ferruginous, mark- 

 ed with oblong black spots, the upper part of the 

 body and wings brown, each feather tipped with 

 ferruginous; the under parts whitish, with brown 

 spots and dashes, which in the young or yearling 



