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hi'S Virginia, Carolina, and St. Domingo : eleven inches 
long. 
160. Falco Dominicenfis, the Domingo falcon. Cere 
and legs yellow ; head cinereous ; body above red-brown, 
beneath dirty-white, both fpotted with black ; eight hiid- 
dle-taii-featherscheftniit, towards the tip black, white at 
the extremity. Bill yellow, black at the tip; irids yel¬ 
low ; outer' tail-feathers of the male white on the outfide 
and tips> inftde cheftnut with a tranfverfe black fpot to¬ 
wards the tips, of the female outfide white with five 
black fpots, infide cheftnut, the feconds whitifh near the 
tip with a black fpot; claws black. Inhabits St. Domingo. 
161. Faleb-rninutus, the minute falcon. Cere brown ; 
legs yellow ; body beneath white ; tail-feathers brown 
banded with black. Bill and claws black ; body above 
Frown varied with rufous, beneath with tranfverfe brown- 
ifh-rbd' ftreaks ; belly fometimes with lanceolate fpots. 
Inhabits Malta, rarely England : eleven inches long. 
16-2. Falco coerulefcens, the Bengal falcon. Cere, 
eyelids, legs, and body beneath, yellow; back bluiflv- 
bluck ; temples fitrrounded by a white line. Bill black- 
ilh ; fore-part of the head white ; area of the eyes naked, 
yellow ; cheeks white with a black line ; two middle 
tail-feathers uniform, the reft beneath with tranfverfe 
white ftreaks; claws blackifh. Inhabits Bengal; fix 
inches and a half long. 
163. Falco reguhis, the Siberian falcon. Cere green- 
ifti; legs dufky-yellow'; rufF ferruginous; body above 
lead-colour, beneath whitifh with rufty fpots. Irids 
brown ; crown brown with blackifh lines ; wings white 
at the edges, varying underneath ; tail-feathers lead-co¬ 
lour towards the tip, beneath with pale bands, edges 
black, tips white. Inhabits Siberia ; a little lefs than 
tile laft : very rare. 
164. Falco pumilus, the tiny falcon. Legs yellow ; 
body brown-afh, beneath whitifh with blackifh bars; 
crown whitifh. Inhabits Cayenne ; hardly fix inches long. 
>'be golden eagle of Bruce, which he alfo calls, in the 
language of Abyflinia, abort ditchn, or father-long beard , 
appears to us to be the vultur /-ucocephalus of Linnaeus; 
for which, fee the article Vultur. 
FAL'CON,/ \_faulcon , Fr. falconno , Ttal.yiz/ro, Lat. 
Credo , a rojlro falcato five adunco, from the falcated or 
or crooked bill. Johnfon.~\ A fpecies of hawk. See Fal¬ 
co.— A hawk trained for fport.—Air flops not the high 
my noble falcon. Walton. - 
Say, will the falcon , ftooping from above, 
Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove ? Pope. 
A fort of cannon, whofe diameter at the bore is five inches 
and a quarter, weight feven hundred and fifty pounds, 
length feven foot, load two pounds and a quarter, fhot 
two inches and a half diameter, and two pounds and a half 
weight. Harris. 
FALCONA'R A, an iftand in the Grecian Archipelago. 
I.at. 36. 55. N. Ion. 42. 51. E. Ferro. 
FA LCCFNE ;(da Benevemo), an ancient chronicler, 
notary and palace-fecretary to pope Innocent II. before the 
middle of the twelfth century. He was alfo chief niagi- 
flrate of Benevento. He wrote a chronicle of the affairs 
ot the kingdom of Naples from 1102 to 1140; and though 
it is conipofed in a very bad ftyle, yet, as the author en¬ 
ters into many details, and was witnefs to much of what 
he relates, his work is efteemed as a faithful and ufeful 
record. It has been frveral times printed in hiftorical 
collections relative to thole periods, and is contained in 
that of Muratori, volumes ii. and v. 
FAL'CONFIR, f. \_faulconnier, Fr.] One who breeds 
and trains hawks ; one who follows the fport of fowling 
with hawks.—The univerfal remedy was fwallowing of 
pebble-ftones, in imitation of falconers curing hawks. Temple. 
llift! Romeo, hill! O for afalc’ncr's voice, 
To lure this tarfel gentle back again. Shakefpeare. 
F A t 
a native of Scotland, He was brought up as a bailor, and 
in that capacity fpent the greateft part of his life in a very 
low ftation. While ferving on-board a man of war, lie 
attracted the notice of Campbell, author of Lexiphanes, 
who took him for his fervant, and delighted in giving 
him inftruCtion. His poem on the death of Frederic prince 
of Wales, in 1751, (hews an ear p radii fed in the melody 
of verfification, though, from the nature of its fubject, it 
gives fcope to no other poetical powers. This loyal effu- 
fion was probably little noticed, and he continued long to 
ftruggle with the tiardftdps of his profeftion. He appears 
to have been perfeCuted with ill fortune; for in fome 
lines afterwards addrelied to his patron the duke of York, 
he calls himfelf “ A haplefs youth, whofe vital page was 
one fad lengthen’d tale of woe.” Among his misfortunes, 
the incident of fufFering fhipwreck in a voyage from Alex¬ 
andria to Venice, when three only of the crew came fafe 
to land, would ftand prominent, had it not given birth 
to that effort of his mufe to which he is indebted for his 
fame. When the event happened, we are not told ; but 
it was in 1762 that he publiftied The Shipwreck, a Poem, 
in three Cantos, by a Sailor. It was infcribed to Edward 
duke of York, and immediately excited the attention of 
the public, as well as of the royal duke, whom he farther 
complimented by An Ode on his fecond Departure from 
England as Rear-Admiral, This obtained for him the 
lucrative employment of purfer to the Royal George. 
Gratitude then induced him to enter the field of political 
controverfy as one of the party of “king’s friends.” He 
wrote a fatyrical poem entitled The Demagogue, in which 
Meflis. Pitt, Wilkes, Churchill, and the oppofitionirts, 
were treated with the fame kind of virulence which the 
latter poet fo unfparingly employed againft all Scotchmen 
and placemen. A very ufeful profedionaL work which 
he publiftied in 1769, The Marine Dictionary, quarto, 
might have perpetuated his name in another branch of 
literature, had not his poetical reputation flood foremoft. 
This was his laft performance, for in that year he em¬ 
barked on-board the Aurora, the fhip fitted out to carry 
the new officers, called fupervifors, to the Eaft Indies, 
in which country Falconer intended to fettle. This veftel 
was never heard of after her departure from the Cape of 
Good Hope, and there is no doubt that file periftied by 
fome accident, with all the crew. 
FALCONE'RA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Mi- 
randola: four miles north-eaft of Mirandola. 
FAL'CONET, f. [falconttte , Fr,] A fort of ordnance, 
whofe diameter at the bore is four inches and a quarter, 
weight four hundred pounds, length fix foot, load one 
pound and a quarter, (hot fomething more than two inches 
diameter, and one pound and a quarter weight. Harris .— 
Mahomet fent janizaries and nimble footmen, with cer¬ 
tain falconets and other fmall pieces, to take the (freights. 
Knolles. —Thefe terms are now no longer in ufe, as it has 
been for fome time the practice to denominate the dif¬ 
ferent fizes of cannon from the weight of the ball they are 
deftined to carry. 
FAL'CONET (Camillus), born at Lyons, in 1671. He 
was bred to pliyfic ; but foon manifefted a greater attach¬ 
ment to fcience and literature, than to the medical art. 
In 1716 he was chofen a member of the academy of belles 
lettres. Fie had formed a library conlifting of more than 
fifty thoufand volumes, from which, in 1742, he feleCted 
fuch as were wanting in the royal library, and generoufly 
prefented them to that collection. Fie died in 1762, at 
the age of ninety-one years. He was the author of a 
tranfiation from the Latin of Villemot’s new Syftem of 
the Planets, 1707, 121110. an edition of Amyot’s Tranfla- 
tion of the Paltoral of Daphnis and Chloe, with curious 
notes, 1732, 121110. an edition of Defperier’s Cymbalum 
Mundi, with notes, 1732, 121110, of feveral Thefes on 
Medical Subjects; and of Diftertations, inlerted in the 
memoirs of the academy of belles lettres. 
FALCONlE'RI, a fmall jfly.nd in the Mediterranean, 
near the weft coaft of Sicily. 
FAL'CONRY, 
FAL'CONER (William), one of the Britifli poets, and 
