F A L C O N .
brown : thighs white on the infide: tail fpotted with kidney-
fhaped fpots : legs blue.
M. Brijfon places this among his variety of Falcons, and fays
that it is a bird of paflage.
M. de Buffon will have it to be a diftinft fpecies from any of
the Falcon tribe, being more allied to the Lamer.
tS r ,
V ar. A.
AMERICAN
SACRE.
Falco facer, Phil. *Tr. vol. lxii. p. 382.
The Sacre, Am. Zool. N®
D escription. T ENGTH twenty-two inches; breadth.three feet; weight two
pounds and a half. Bill and cere blue: irides yellow:
head whitifh, with longitudinal ftreaks of brown : throat white,
fpotted with brown: parts above brown, the feathers fpotted and
edged with ferruginous, the fpots not touching the fhafts : beneath
this bird is white, with longitudinal dark brown fpots:
the quills are black brown ; the margins and ends of the prime
ones white, tranfverfely fpotted within with pale ferruginous:
the lefler quills marked with round fpots on the outfides.
This bird inhabits North America, and was ferit from Severn
River, Hudfon’s Bay, where it is called Speckled Partridge Hawk.
It is faid never to migrate. Quere, Is this a variety of the laft,
.or a different fpecies ?
LENGTH
T E N G T H twenty inches. Bill pale alh; tip black: cere
yellow: iris deep yellow: parts above brown: nape ferruginous
: back, wing coverts, and fcapulars, margined with a
paler colour : cheeks inclining to afh-colour : belly ferruginous,
with irregular dark blotches: vent clay-coloured : thigh-feathers
of a mottled afh-colour, with round dark fpots on the feathers ;
the 16wer ones have four great blotches of the fame: tail barred
of a deeper and lighter brown; four bars in all: legs ftrong,
yellow, feathered half way down : claws black.
Inhabits Newfoundland. — Defcribed from a drawing in Air.
Banks’s collection.
CO.
NEWFOUNDLAND
F.
N. S.
D escription.
Le Faucon etoile, Brif- orn. i. p. 359. N° 11.
Blue-footed Falcon, Will. orn. p. 82. chap. xi. near the end.
fir-
STARRY
F.
rpH lS is faid to be like the Peregrine Falcon in fize and fhape,
^ but has fhorter wings, and a longer tail. The general colour
is blackifh, marked with fpots refembling Ears : beneath it
is black and white mixed: quills blackifh : legs blue.
D escription—
The iris is of the colour of gold. 62.
+- NORTHERN;
F.
C IZ E of a Ringtail: length eighteen inches. Bill horn-colour:
^ irides reddifh : parts above deep lead-colour: edges of the
feathers very dark; the top of the head is darkeft; on the hind
head a flight mixture of white: beneath ferruginous brown,
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