BIRDS. ACCIPITRES. a. Falco- 163 
Inhabits Cayenne ; larger than the fparrow hawk. 
fhorter ; ii 7 / longer, thicker, black ; tnd\ feathers 
above and on the brcafl brown edged with rally ; clams black. 
^ ‘’^iferui. Legs yellow ; body grey-afh, beneath white ; larger anti 
lelFer wing-coverts black. Criad Falcon. 
Inhabits India ; fire of a pigeon ; preys on frogs. 
Jrtds yellow; orbits red, naked; eyelids with lalbcs. 
^^l^annen 
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-Legs yellow; body nifty with fmall linear black fpots; 
chin yellow; quill -feathers blackilh-brown ; tail 
white, Nvedged, 'Johanna Falcon. 
Inhabits Johanna ifland, 
Bill black, lower mandible yellow at the bafe. 
’^^huteo. Cere and legs yellow ; back brown ; nape whit? ; belly 
palifti with oblong brown fpot.s. Hobby. 
2. Body above blneifli-black ; cheeks white with a black line 
reaching through them from the crowm. 
Inhabits Europe and Siberia; 12 mches long; preys on larks» 
who are fo terrified that they fly to mankind for proteltion, 
•ih/Zblue; ori/tr yellow; irids chefnut, Aildom yellow; lateral 
/aiT/ca/Aert with blackifli bars; r/iiaof black: 2) irfa/2 white 
with oblong black Ipots; primary quill-feathers with oval 
reddilb fpots ; 2 middle tail feathers dove-colour ; the refl 
underneath with o.val reddifli fpots. . 
^■■^‘^^iius. Bill and legs lead-colour; body above dufky -brown with 
narrow whitifti lines crofting each other; chin with 
long narrow whitifti feathers ; throat and breaft orange ; 
belly and tail with brown interrupted ftreaks. 
Orange-brcajied Hobby. 
Inhabits Surinam : 15 inches long. 
Bill whitifti at the bale; throat with round white fpots; lower 
tail-ccnerts rufty; tail towards the tip with white lines; 
legs long, flender ; clatas black. 
2. Streaks on the body more dufley ; chin white ; throat orange ; 
10 inches long. 
3. Legs tawny ; body above blueifh-hlack with blueifh ftrcaksj 
beneath ftreaked with white. 
Size of the laft : belly, vent and thighs reddifli ; chin and throat 
reddifli, with a white fpot in the middle. 
Cere dufky; legs yellow; body cinereous, upper part ^ 
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