66.
CEYLONESE
CRESTED
F.
N. S.
D escription.
J g IL L dufky: cere yellow : colour wholly white as milk: on the
head are two feathers hanging behind, like a pendent creft.
This bird inhabits Ceylon*.— Communicated by Mr. Pennant:
the fize not mentioned.
67.
GREY
F.—
D escription.
Grey Falcon, Br. Zool. N° 49.
g I Z E of a Raven. Bill Ihort, ftrong, hooked, and of a blueilh
colour: cere and edges of the eyelids yellow: irides red:
head fmall, flat, of a deep brown on the fore part, white behind
: fides of the head and throat cream-coloured : belly white,
with oblong black fpots: hind part of the neck, and the back, of
a deep grey -. wings reach beyond the end of the tail j quill-feathers
Ipotted with white : tail long, wedge-lhaped, and fpotted i
the two middle feathers plain: legs long, naked, and yellow.
This bird was Ihot near Halifax, in Torkfhire, in the year 1762.
68.
BROWN JER-
FALCON
D escription.
Falco Jerfalco, Lin.fyfl. i. p. 130. N" l-j. —Faun. face. p. 24? N" 64.
n p H E cere is blue 1 the body brown, fafciated with cinereous
beneath: the fide tail-feathers are white. It varies in having
fometimes blue and fometimes yellow legs. It’s prey are Cranes,
Herons, and Pigeons.
* If M. de Baffin's role holds good, which is, that every white bird of this
genus is a variety, and not a diliinft fpecies, this may moil probably turn out
.a variety of our Crejlcd Indian Falcon, N° 63.— See Buff oif. i, p. 73. 5 So-
So far from the Syjknia Nature. Linnaus quotes feveral other
authors, but none of them correfpond with his defcription :
indeed, the Fauna Suecica, which he mentions among the reft,
fays, that it has a dark cinereous back; that the belly is of a
light alh, with tranfverfe fpots 5 that it is the fize of a cock, and
infefts dove-houfes.
Le Gerfault, Brtf. orn. i. p. 370. N° 19. t. 30« f. 2.
................. Buf, oif. i. p. 239. t. 13.
" ■ ' ------PI. eiiL 215, 446, 462.
Gyrfalco, Railfyn. p. 13, N° 3.
Gerfalcon, Will, orn. p. 78. N° 3.
White Falcon, D°. p. 80. NQ 7.
Gyrfalcon, Br» Z00L N° 47.
Lev» Mu/.
69.
■ WHITE JER.
FALCON.
blackilh g I Z E of a Golhawk. Bill blue alh: tip : cere blue D es crip t ion.
alh: irides, and Ikin round the eyes, blue : general colour
white, Ipotted with brown : legs of a pale blueilh alh-colour:
claws lead-colour.
This, as Mr. Pennant obferves, is the Gyrfalco of all the or-
nithologifts, except Linttaus. M. de Buffon mentions three kinds
of the Jerfalconj the firft brown above, white beneath, Ipotted
with brown; tail grey, with tranfverfe brown lines: the fecond
differing very little from the firft : the third white.
Whether Limans was fenfible of thefe varieties cannot be faid,
as he does not mention one word about it: however, it is clear
that he did not mean this white kind from his defcription, not-
withftanding he might quote it in his fynonyms.
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