126 COMMON FALCON. 



4. Spotted Falcon, Wings spotted with white ; 

 under parts white, spotted with brown: bill lead- 

 colour 5 legs yellow. 



5. Brown Falcon. Body brown, with deeper 

 spots above, and white with brown spots beneath, 

 those on the breast lanceolate. 



6. Reddish Falcon. Differs from the Common 

 Falcon in having black and reddish spots. 



7. Red Indian Falcon. Cinereous-brown above; 

 wing-coverts and under parts reddish-fulvous: tail 

 marked with semicircular black and ash-coloured 

 bars. 



8. Italian Falcon. Head and neck tawny, with 

 ferruginous lines or streaks: breast brown, with 

 ferruginous specks : end of the wings marked with 

 round white spots : legs yellow. 



9. Sacre Falcon. This, which Buffon conceives 

 to be a variety of the Lanner, Monsieur Daudin, 

 with Monsieur Brisson, considers as a variety of 

 the Common Falcon. Length two feet : bill and 

 cere blue: back, wing-coverts, and breast, spotted 

 with brown : tail marked with crescent-shaped 

 spots: legs blue. To this, as a farther variety, 

 should be added the American Sacre of Mr. 

 Pennant, measuring twenty-two inches in length, 

 and three feet in breadth: irides yellow: head 

 whitish, with longitudinal brown streaks : bill and 



