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PALCO LANARIUS. 
LANNER FALCON. (VARIETY.) 
Cere yellow ; legs and beak blue ; body 
beneath marked with black longitudinal 
spots. 
Falco Lanarius, Lin. Gme. 
Le Lanier, Buffon. 
Lanner, Will. Pen. Lath. Bew. Mont. 
PROVINCIAL. 
HAGGARD FALCON, SLIGHT FALCON, 
BLUE BACKED FALCON. 
Naturalists have enumerated a great va« 
riety of Falcons ; and in order to swell the 
list, they have introduced the same bird at 
different periods of its life, and have, not 
unfrequently, substituted accidental differ- 
ences, arising from sex, age, or climate, as 
constituting permanent varieties ; so that, as 
Buffon observes, one would be apt to imagine 
that there w6re as many varieties of the 
Falcon as of the pigeon, the hen, and other 
domestic birds. In this way supposed new 
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