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BIRDS; ACCIPITRES. 2. Falco. i 6 i 
Legs brown ; head ferruginous with long feathers ; body* 
above cinereous, beneath pale yellowilh-whitc ; tail 
above pale brown, beneath blueilh-aih. Fijhing Falcotn 
Inhabils Senegai; feeds on lilh, which it tears to pieces; 
Bill and irids yellow ; margin of the upper feathers rully-brownj 
tinder Ipotted on the middle with brotVu. 
Legs pale j head and body above browny tcnetith: white with 
yellow lunular fpots; tail pale brown with 4 paler 
lines. Bro-wn Flaivk. 
Inhabits Ceylon f 13 inches long^ 
^iVibiue, black at the tip ; y’dlow ; rcnig-corfrir white at 
the edges; Jhauldtrs ipotted with white ; elates black. 
• '‘oiuji Cere and legs yellow? body above blue, beneath feddiUi- 
white ; neck purplilh-red. Red-throated Falccnt 
Inhabits South America; 16 — ^18 inches long. 
Bill blue orbits yeWovf, iridr orange; r/aa's black. 
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Gere cinereous; legs yellow; body waved with blacky 
above aihy-brown, beneath whitilh. American Hawki 
Inhabits America; llze and appearance of the next. 
Bill pale lead-colour ; crown and fides of the head with longi- 
tudinal white lines; belly reddilh-brown t tail alhy'-brown 
with 3 tranfvcrlE pale brown llripcs, tip paler; claan- black. 
Cere green ;■ legs yellow ; belly white waved with grey ; 
tail wdth blackilh bands. Sparrow Flaivke 
Back fpotted with white. 
Body entirely white. 
Inhabits J’.iirope, AJricii And Madeira; male 12, female 15 
inches long : very bold, preys on poultry, partridges, pigeons 
and Imall birds; is taught to catch larks. 
Bill blueilh ; head, back, wing-covcrls and tail fometimes dufky 
blueifh-afh, fometimes dulky -brown edged with rully ; male 
verging to dove-colour ; chin, brccjl and belly whitilh-yellow, 
in the male more dulky with dulky-brown waves ; 2) brown 
with a few white (pots; tail white at the tip with 5 broad 
black bands ; 3) beneath alternately w’hitc and brown. 
Cere and legs yellow ; head dulky with rufty llreaks ; body* 
above brown, beneath dirty-white with brown llreaks j 
tail dulky-alh with 4 black bands.- Dubious Falcon, 
Inhabits New York and Carolina; 10 inches long. 
Bill dufky ; irids yellow ; wing-coverts edged with ruily ; pna 
mary tail-feathers dulky-alli with vvliite lines,- 
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