FALCONIDiE. 



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Inhabits Brazil. Length fifteen to seventeen 

 inches : the adult male bird greatly resembles the 

 preceding, the entire plumage being of a lead-colour, 

 palest beneath, and sometimes marked with indistinct 

 transverse lines : the feathers on the under part of 

 the tail are slightly tinged with brown and reddish ; 

 those of the wings and of the secondaries are some- 

 what rayed with deep lead : the tail is dusky, with a 

 broad white band near its base, and its tip griseous : 

 the legs are orange-yellow : irides white : cere orange : 

 lores and eyes green brown. The female has the 

 upper parts of a much paler hue^ and the under trans- 

 versely striped with whitish. The young have the 

 head, cheeks, and upper part of the body dusky, with 

 a red brown waved collar on the nape, and reddish 

 margin to all the feathers : the lower parts of the 

 plumage are whitish, with transverse brown-red stripes 

 which disappear by age, and are replaced by ashy 

 feathers. 



Sp. 3. Cy. Cayennensis. 



Falco Cayennensis. Skaxu, v. vii. p. 160. Temm. PI. Col. 

 270. — Cayenne. 

 Sp. 4. Cy. coronatus. 



Cy. cristatus capite rujo-griseo ; rostro parte alarum et colli pec- 



toreque nigris ; abdomine albo ; Jemoribus albis nigra maculatis. 

 Crested Cymindis with the head reddish-grey ; the beak^ part of 



the wings and of the neck and the breast black ; the abdomen 



white; the thighs white spotted with black. 

 Falco coronatus. D'Azara. Temm. PI. Col. 235. — Crowned 



Eagle. Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 233. 



Inhabits Grenada. Length about two feet six 

 inches : the crest is six inches long. 



