■FALCONIDiE. 



rest of the bird dark brown : greater wing-coverts 

 marked slightly with white: quills with some grey- 

 brown, dark, marbled transverse stripes : tail broad, 

 with four whitish transverse stripes, marbled with 

 greyish-brqwn : feathers of the thighs, legs, lov^er 

 parts of the back, rump, and vent dark brown, with 

 narrow transverse lines. 



GENUS XV.—PHYSETA, Vieillot. 



Rostrum breve; mandlhula 

 iriferior ad apicem cordi- 

 forme-emargiiiata ; nares 

 tuberculatae. 



Tarsi digitique breves; di~ 

 S'iti externi basi membrana 



connexi ; ungues 

 oequali, acuti. 



sub- 



Bedk short ; the under man- 

 dible with a heart-shaped 

 emargination towards the 

 tip ; nostrils tuberculated. 



Tarsi and toes short; the 

 outer toe connected at the 

 base by a membrane ; the 

 clazvs nearly equal, acute. 



Sp. 1 . Ph. sufflator. 



Falco sufflator. Shavo, v, vii.^?. 155. 



Inhabits South America. The natural situation 

 of this extraordinary bird is doubtful, but it appears 

 to belong to the present stirps, and to be allied to the 

 Morphni. 



GENUS XVI.— -CVMINDIS, Cuvier. 



Rostrum supra convexum ; 

 nares subclausi, rimsefor- 

 mes. 



Tarsi breves; digiti semi- 

 palmati. 



Beak convex above ; nostrils 

 nearly closed, and resem- 

 bling a cleft. 



Tarsi short; toes half-web- 

 bed. 



A. Acrotarsiis scutellatis. A> Acrotarsia scutellated. 



