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Falco pedibus, cera palpebrifque flavis , capite fufco , nucha et abdo - 
albis. 
\The yellow-legged Falco ^ with the head brown 3 and the Jhoulders and 
belly white . 
This is a large bird : the head is fmall, and flatted at the top ; the beak is broad, 
ftiort, ftrong, very hooked, and of a blue colour: the membrane, at it’s bafe, is yel¬ 
low ; the eye-lids alfo are yellow : the eyes are large, and very bright and piercing; 
their iris is red : the upper part of the head is of a dufky blackifh-brown, and the 
hinder part, toward the fhoulders, is white : the fides of the head alfo are white, and 
fo is the throat. 
The belly is white, variegated with fpots of black; there is a fpot of black of an 
oblong form on every feather: the legs are of a dufky grey, with a tinge of brown, 
and the tail is, on the under part, of a mixt, ferrugineous, and whitifli colour. 
The wings are very large, and cover a great fpace, when they are expanded ; when 
clofed, they reach beyond the end of the tail. 
The long feathers of the wings are of a bluifh tinge, with a mixture of black and 
grey, except the firft of them, which are abfolutely black, only that the verge of the 
extremities of them is white, and the others have from five to ten fpots of white on 
the inner edges. 
The tail is long and acuminated j the two intermediate feathers are longer than the 
reft, and have no variegations, but all the others are fpotted ; they have each about 
nine fpots on them, and thefe are more diftinguifhable on the inner edge than elfe- 
where: all the feathers on the body are of a dufky iron grey toward the bafe. 
The legs are long, naked, and yellow; the claws are very robuft and fliarp, and 
■are of a deep horn colour. 
This fpecies is a native of fome of the northern parts of Europe; I have met with 
it in Yorkfhire and in Suflfex, but it is not common with us: wherever I have feen 
it, it has been in the midft of large and undifturbed woods. It is a bold bird ; it 
nfually fits toward the top of fome high tree, under cover of the boughs, and will 
fly at almoft any thing that comes in fight: the wood-pigeon feems it’s favourite 
prey. It has been overlooked by. many of the naturalifts, though a very fingular bird, 
but it has not often fallen in the way of people in thefe- ftudies; thofe who have de¬ 
fer ibed it, have called it Subbuteo and Dendro falco. 
Falco cera pedibufque luteis, dorfo fufco, peElore pallido , 
maculis longitudinalibus fufeis. 
Floe yellow-lugged Falco , with a brown back^ and a pale 
breajl fpotted with brown . 
This fpecies is of the fize of a pheafant j it’s weight is about thirty ounces: the 
head is large, which is contrary to the moft of this genus: the crown or fummit of 
the head is depreffed, broad, and flat; the beak is fihort, but it is very thick and 
ftrong, and is of a bluifh-black colour, and very hooked and fliarp at the point: the 
cera or membrane at the bafe of the beak is yellow, and in this are placed the noftrils, 
which are oblong, and very confpicuous: the opening of the mouth is wide, and it 
is yellow within : the tongue is large, thick, flefliy, and obtufe at the end ; the palate 
has a furrow in it, equal to the fize of the tongue : the angle of the lower jaw is cir¬ 
cular : the eyes are large, and have a bold, fierce, and piercing look 5 their iris is 
ufually whitifh, but fometimes it has with the white a tinge of red or yellow: the 
lower eye-brow is lanuginous, and the niditating membrane is blue, 
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