The Hiflory of ANIMALS. 
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Falco fupine rubefcens pedihus flavis , capite deprejfo. 
The yellow-legged\ reddiflo Falco, with a flatted head, 
This is a very large and an extreamly beautiful fpecies; it is equal to a well-grown 
pullet in fize, but it’s body is {lender, in proportion to it’s length, and it has a way ' 
of {landing in a remarkably eredt manner. 
The head is very fmall, in proportion to the fize of the bird, and it is remarkably 
flatted on the crown: mold of the birds of prey have the head fomewhat flatted, but 
this more than all; the hinder part is very broad, but there is not the lead appearance 
of any eminence or rifing in it: the feathers which cover the head are of a greyiih 
colour, with a faint admixture of brown, and thofe on the back of the neck are of 
the fame tinge : the beak is remarkably large and ftrong ; the bafe is broad, and on 
the upper part it is fomewhat prominent: the point is extreamly hard, firm, and 
{harp, and bends a confiderable way over the lower chap: the colour of the beak is 
a greyiih-blue, with a tinge of horn colour, and the cera or membrane that furrounds 
it’s bafe is yellow, wrinkled, and has the noftrils in it; they are large, patulous, and 
ftand obliquely : the eyes are large, and look very fierce; their iris is brown, and the 
pupil black, and the membranes of the eye-lids are yellow at the edges ; and, from the 
lefier canthus of each eye, there is continued a beautiful oblong red fpot. 
The back and the upper part of the wings are of the fame colour with the head, 
only a little darker; but the bread, the belly, and the upper part of the under fur- 
face of the wings are of a beautiful red ; the rump alfo is of this elegant colour, as 
are alfo the feathers which cover the thighs. 
The thmat is of the fame elegant red colour, but it is variegated with a beauti¬ 
ful, oblong fpot, of a dark grey ; and in fome birds the bread has fome variegations of 
the fame colour, in form of irregularly oblong fpots; but this is not univerfal, many 
having not the lead fpot there. The fides where they are covered by the wings are 
not of this high colour, but of a dufky grey. 
The wings are very long. When clofed, they reach to the extremity of the tail, 
and, when expanded, they meafure three times the length of the body : the tail is 
long, and is compofed of twelve feathers; thefe are very large and firm, and are beau¬ 
tifully variegated with alternate circles, or parts of circles of black and grey. 
The legs are very robud, but not remarkably long ; they are yellow : the toes are 
long and drong, and the claws are black, and are remarkably fharp and formidable. 
The male of this fpecies is confiderably fmaller than the female ; tt\e colours are 
fainter, and it has not that fpot on the throat, which is fo Angular in the female, and 
the legs are of a paler yellow. 
This beautiful fpecies is a native only of the Ead Indies; it builds in the thicked 
woods, and is very {hy, but it is a bold feeder both on birds, and on the fmaller 
quadrupeds. Aldrovand has defcribed it under the name of Falco ruber Indicus; 
and mod of the writers who have fucceeded him, have borrowed his name, and his 
defcription. We fometimes fee rude delineations of it in the Chinefe pictures j and 
fpecimens of the bird are fometimes, though rarely, brought over, as curiofities, by 
the Captains of our Ead India fhip. 
Falco capite cirrato. 
The Falco , with a cirrated head. 
This is an extreamly beautiful fpecies; it is of the fize of a well-grown pullet *, the 
head is fmall and flatted, and of a deep black, and is ornamented with a cred of 
long feathers, which hang down behind it; the outer ones of thefe are longer than 
thofe 
