34 F A L C O N .
Place.
and neck pale afh-colour: body and wings cinereous, clouded
with brown : quills very dark: tail white: legs feathered a little
way below the knees, and of a bright yellow colour; claws
black.
Inhabits Europe, particularly Scotland and the Orknies. The
male is of a darker colour than the female. On Mr. Pennants
authority, and juft reafons, we here place it with the Falcons, as
the head and neck are both completely feathered. Indeed the
ftraitnefs of the bill might lead Linnaeus to unite it with the Vul~
tures; but he is the only one who has thought fit to rank it with
that genus.
PLAINTIVE
E.
Falco Plancus, J . F. Miller, tab. iy.
Cook’s Fey. vol. ii. p. 184, t, 32.
D escription. T E N G T H twenty-five inches. Bill black : cere, and round
■“ the eyes, orange: crown of the head black; the feathers,
longilh, forming a creft : the neck, and upper part of the body,
the bread, and upper part of the belly, are grey, ftriated with
numerous undulated tranverfe black lines: between the legs
black: vent grey brown, with undulated lines.: wings brown ;
fome of the coverts whife, barred with; broym; the. four outer
quills black, the inner ones white, with, dark bars : tail white,
with numerous black bars; the end, for more than an inch,
black : legs bright yellow : claws.black.
Inhabits Terra del Fuego.
Black