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ROUGH-LEGGED FALCON. 
half, Mack towards their points ; lining of the 
white ; legs, yellow, short, and thick, and feathered 
half way below the knee; claws, much curved, 
>tish; outer claw, veiy small. The greater part of 
Pluman-e is white at the base; and, when the 
wPolars are a little displaced, they appear spotted 
White 
was' a male in perfect plumage. The colour and 
of tile male and female are nearly alike. 
SUBGENUS VIII.— BJTEO, BECHSTEIN. 
LAOOP^S, wmSON. -BOUGH-LEGGED FALCON. 
elate XXNIIl. no. I. -EDINBUBGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
A^«is handsome species, notwithstanding 
v'l® size and appearance, spends the chief part of the 
f among our low swamps aud meadows, watching 
’?'■ ”iice, fro^s, lame ducks, and other iiiMonous game. 
.,*5 . • . fuTnilv nave reffularlv 
ce, fro^s, lame ducks, and other inwonous game, 
or thirty individuals of this family have regularly 
to-®'' up their winter quarters, for several years past, 
uf Ptotiably long .antenor to that date, in the meadows 
S , 'V this^city, between the rivers Delaware and 
..'•'Uyllciii where they spend their time watching along 
Ky ba lks like cats;‘or sailing low and ^ u'-ly 
surface of the ditches. Though ^ 
g ^ Ulany attempts made to shoot them, y • 
5^ far, LiallT vom one tree to another at no great 
u^fauoe, ml-fuo a loud squeeling as they ‘wise, somiv 
l^e resemhliiig the neighing of a young colt, though 
a more shrill and savage tone. ■ i- * 
comSnt these with Pennant’s deseriptiqn,* 
corres^ndedso exactly, ttono douhts lemain of 
'•‘aw being the same species. Towards the heginning 
* Arctic Zoology, p. 200, No. 92. 
