BIRDS. ACCIPITRES. -..Stax. 
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Cere, eyelids, legs and body beneath yellow; back blueiHi.. 
black ; temples furrounded by a white line. 
Bengal Falcfn- 
Inhabits Bengal ; 6-t inches long. 
Bill bbckilli ; forp-part of the head white ; area of the eyes 
naked, yellow ; cheeks white with a black line ; 2 middle 
tail-feathers ujiifonii, tlip tell beneath with tranlverfe white, 
ftreaks ; claws blackilh. 
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‘S>clns, Cere greenifli ; legs du(ky-yello\v ; rufF ferruginous ; body 
above lead-colour, beneath whitilh with rully fpots. 
Siberian Falcon, 
Inhabits Siberia ; a little lefs than the laft ; very rare. 
Irids brown ; crown brown w'ith blackifh lines ; wings whits 
at the edges, varying underneath; tail-feathers lead-colour 
towards the tip, beneath with pale bands, edges black, tip? 
white. 
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“''’^llus. Legs yellow ; body brown-afh, beneath whitilh with black- 
ilh bars; crown whitifli. Tiny Falcon. 
Inhabits Cayennes hardly 6 inches long. 
3. STRIX. Bill hooked, , cere o : nojlrils 
oblong, covered with briftly recum- 
bent feathers : head, auricles and eyes 
large : tongue bifid. 
Tliefe fly abroad only by night, and prey on fmall birds, mice 
and bats ; the eyes are weak by day, and generally doled, 
during which time if difeovered theyf are peftered by fmall 
birds : legs ufually downy to the toes ; outer toe retraftile ; 
auricles large, covered with a membrane ; outer, quill-feather 
lerrate on each edge; claws hooked, fharp. 
A. Eared. 
Body tawny. Great Owl. 
, 2. Body darker with bjackilh wings, 
3. Legs naked. 
4* Blackilh-yellow variegated with white, 
Inliabits Europe, Calmuc Tartary, South America, in cav'cms 
and mountainous rocks ; preys on hares, rabbits, moles, ratsj 
mice, and fometimes bats and reptiles. • t, li 
Irids yellow; head and body elegantly variegated with black, 
brown, afh and rufty fpots and lines; claws large, much 
hooked, dulky, 
Virginiana. 
