AMERICAN BROWN HAWK. l6l 



tip: cere and legs yellow: irides gold-coloured. 

 Native of Russia. 



brown's hawk. 



Falco Brownii. F, supra fuscus, suhtus albus lunulis flavis^ 



Cauda grisea lineis quatuor fuscis. 

 Brown Falcon, white beneath with yellow crescent-shaped 



spots, and grey tail with four linear brown bars. 

 Falco badius. Lin. Si/st. Nat. Gmel. 

 Brown Hawk. Lath, syn. 



Described and figured in Peter Brown's Illustra- 

 tions of Zoology; length thirteen inches: bill 

 blue y irides and legs yellow. Native of Ceylon. 



AMERICAN BROWN HAWK, 



Falco fuscus. F. cinereo-fuscus, capite albo-striato, suhtus 



alhidus macuUs longitudinalibus fuscis, caudafuscofasciata. 

 Cinereous-brown Hawk, with the head streaked with white, 



the under parts whitish with longitudinal brown spots, and 



the tail crossed with brown bars. 

 Falco fuscus. Lin. Gmel, Lath. ind. orn. 

 American Brown Hawk. I^ath. syn. Falco fuscus. ? Mill, 



111. pi. 18. 



The birds of this species in the Leverian Museum 

 were of the size and shape of a Sparrow- Hawk, and 

 of a cinereous brown above, with the head longi- 

 tudinally streaked with white, and the under pstrts 



V. vn, 11 



