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and belly are yellowifh, with brown flreaks, 
which are not mentioned by the ornitho- 
logies, though their defcriptions anfwer in 
other refpedts, It weighs fix ounces and a 
half, its length is iof, the breadth 22 1, 
Catefby’s figure is a very indifferent one. 
Falco, 2. Spadicens. New Species. Chocolate 
Falcon. Faun. Am. Sept. p. 9. 
This fpecies, at firft fight, bears fome refem- 
blance to the European Moor Buzzard, or 
AeruginoJuSy Linn, but is much lefs, and 
wants the light fpots on the head and fhoul- 
ders. No number or defcription was fent 
along with it. 
Falco, 3. Sacer, Briffcm, I. p. 337. Sacre de 
Buffon, Oifeaux, (edition in iamo.) Tom. II* 
p. 349. t. 14. Faun. Am. Sept. p. 9. 
Severn R.iver, N° 16. 
Speckled Partridge Hawk,, at Hudlon’s Bay. 
The name is derived from its feeding on the 
birds of the Grous tribe, commonly called 
partridges, at Hudfon’s Bay. Its irides are 
yellow,, and the legs blue. It comes nearefh 
the Sacre of Briffon, Buffon, and- Belon 
but Buffon fays it has black eyes, which is 
very indiftinfl ; for the irides are black in 
none of the falcons, and in few other birds ; 
and the pupil, if he means that, is black, in 
all birds. It is faid, .by Belon, to come from 
Tartary and Ruffia, and is, therefore, pro- 
bably a northern bird. It is very voracious 
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