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The Lament.
Numb. VII.
’T ’ H I S Bird is fomewhat lefs than the Fa/con Gentle, and is diftin-
guiihed from other Hawks by thefe marks, his Beak, Legs and Feet
are blewiih or Lead Colour; his Breaft Feathers parti-coloured of Black
and White, die black Marks not eroding the Feathers, but drawn long
ways down the Middle of them contrary to what they are in Falcons.
* T he Eyes are large, the Irides yellow, over each Eye is a white Line
reaching round the Fore-part of the Head; the Top of the Crown, upper
Side of the Neck, Back, and covert Feathers of the Wings are of a
dusky Brown; the Quill-Feathers black, the under Side of the Wings
dusky with fmall round whitiih Spots like Pieces of Money, difperfed
through the Superficies.
It hath a thick and fhort Neck; the Legs ihorter than the Reft of
the Falcon Kind.
It feems to be called Lcwurius d Icinictndo, i. g. from tearing. It jg of a
gentle Nature, of a docile and tradable Difpofition (as Bellonms writes)
very fitfor aft Sorts of Game, as well Water-Fowl, as land; for it catches
not only Pies, Quails, Partridges, Crows, Pheafants, &>c. but alfo Ducks,
yea and Cranes too, being trained up thereto by human Induftry: They
abide all the Year in France., being feen there as well in Winter, as in
Summer, contrary to the Manner of other rapacious Birds.