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CAROLINA
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INSCRIPTION.
Le Faucon pêcheur des Antilles, Brif. ont. i. p. 361. N» i t .
Le Faucon pecheyr delà Caroline, Brif. ortt. i. p, 362. N° 13.
' *--------------------Buf. oif. i. p, 14.2.
Le Pefcheur, Rttii Syn. p. ig. N° 2.
Fifliing Hawk, Catejb. Car, i, t. 2.
Ofprey, Am. Zool.
Lev. Muf.
T ^ E difference between this and the laft is not much; the
tail in this lpecies being of a plain brown colour : in the
former it is banded : and it is faid to be longer in the body than
the European one. Mr. Pennant muft think them the fame,
lince he has quoted the fame figure in Cate]by for his Ofprey.
the contrary is fometimes feen in the infcft tribe. In the common Lolfter,
and lèverai of the cancer genus, the claws differ much ; but moll fo in the Carolina
Sand-Crab (cancer vocans Linn.) one of the daws of which is fo non-
ltroufly large, as to oblige the animal to fupport it on the back when in motion ;
while the other is very fmall, fcarcely larger than one of the legs.— In refpeft
to winged infeds, it is obferved, that even the marks of the wings exaftly corre-
fpond on each fide. Indeed, a Angular circumftance occurs in one of the Blatta f
or Cockroach genus, which, I believe, is the only one recorded, at leall obferved
by me. In this fpecies, one of the elytra, or wing-cafes, is marked with
four white fpots, and the other with three only ; which holds good in every
fpecimen of it I have yet feen. .
As to Lufus Natural, they are far from being uncommon ; fuch as a duck
without webs to the toes, which I have often feen ; a common fnail with
the fpiral turns of the fliell reverfed, one of which was found in my garden a
few years fin ce; alfo a flounder having the eyes and lateral line on the left
fide, inliead of the right (mentioned in the Br. Zool. vol. iii. p. 229.) Ifc.
Thefe, and an hundred fuch which might be mentioned, muft be reckoned
as Angularities happening now and then, but by no means to be fet down for
permanent diftindlions of fpecies.
t Blatta beterodita, Pall,/pic. N* 9. t. it fig. 3.
2 . This
F A L C O N.
This inhabits Carolina, and other parts of North America and
the Weft Indies.——'The two numbers of BriJJon, above quoted,,are
dearly one and the fame bird.
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V a r . B.
N. S.
CAYENNE
O.
g I Z E of the Ofprey. Length twenty-fix inches: breadth five
feet two inches. Bill black: cereobfcure: general.colour of
the bird a dark rufty brown; A white line pafles from the D e s c r i p t io n
upper mandible, over each eye, to the hind head, which, with the
nape, is white alfo : crown of the head brown and white, mixed :
from the chin quite to the vent, it is white: under the eye, and
down each fide of the neck, paffes a ftripe of brown,, in the
fame manner as in the Ofprey: the two middle feathers of the
tail are plain brown, the others barred brown and white; the
two outmoft are marked on both fides of the fhaft, but the reft
on the inner webs only; the tips of allfof them, are white : the
legs are ftrort, ftrong, and' chagrined beneath the feet ; the colour
yellowifh: claws very large;.ftrong, hooked, and black.
This bird came from Cayenne, and is in. the colledtion of Mifs
Blomtfield.— It appears to me clearly,, to be a variety of the Ofprey
; having every appearance of that bird at firft fight: which,
proves theOlprey to be a bird common to.every climate..
LeFancon dès Antilles, Brif. orn. i. p. 361. N° 13;.
Mansfeny, Buf. oif. i. p. ,44.
Mansfeny, Hiß. des Antill. ii. p. 2521
Raii Syn.. p. ip, N° i..
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MANSFENY.
T T H 1 S' has the ffiaPe and plumage o f an Eagle; differing only d ESCRi1 T
in fize;. being not much bigger than, a Falcon. In colour RTiom
it.
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