84 F A L C O N .
The fort above defcribed is found in Iceland, and in other
very cold climates. The Ipecimen from which Mr. Pennant
defcribed his, was Ihot near Aberdeen. It inhabits the North of
Scotland.
6g.
V ar. A.
ICELAND JER-
FALCON.
D escription.
Le Gerfault d’lilande, Brif. orn. i. p. 373. t. 31.
n p H E bird has luteous irides: it is brown above, fpotted with
white on the back and wings: the lower part of the back,
the rump, and upper tail-coverts, have bands of an hoary colour
: the throat of a rufous white, as is the lower part of the
neck, each feather longitudinally marked with brown : the parts
beneath are white, fpotted with black: legs yellow.
Inhabits Iceland with the laft.
70.
SURINAM
F.
Falco fufilator, Lin. fyfi. i. p. 127. N® 17.
Surinam Falcon, Bancroft N. Hijl, of Guiana, p. 153.
Br. Muf.
D escription. T IN N A tU S defcribes this bird in the following manner:— The
cere is yellow: noftrils furnifhed with a flefhy lobe between
them : covering of the eyes bony * : body above brown the
• Oculorum operculis ojfeis. I fuppofc he means that the opaque part of the
cornea, fo called by anatomifts (or white of the eye) is of a bony texture : i f fo,
it is by no means peculiar to this bird: it is of a very hard fubftance in moft of
the genus, but remarkably fo in the Owl tribe, in which the eyes are large,
and it is very confpicuous.
feathers
feathers white at the bafe : the under parts,, and the tail-feathers,
fpotted with brown, white, and luteous: legs yellow.
It inhabits Surinam. When this bird is either angry or fright- Place and
ened, it Hows* up the head till it is of the fize of the body. Manners.
In Mifs Blomefie Id’s colle&ion is a bird very like this, if not
the fame, viz. about the fize of the Hen-harrier : above brown,
with a mixture of ferruginous : forehead and throat paleft: hind
head and neck marked as the fore parts : from the bafe of the
bill to a little beyond the eyes, is a ftreak of brown, ending in
a point at the back part: the under parts are white, ftreaked
with brown : the bread; tinged with ferruginous : thighs buff-
colour : quills fpotted with ferruginous; beneath dirty white,,
with obfcure narrow bars of brown : legs yellow.
This Ipecimen came from Cayenne.
Falco cachinnans, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 128. N° 13.
£\ERE luteous: eyelids white : body mixed brown and whitilh:
neck, throat, breaft, belly, and under the wings, white: tail
banded with luteous and black : legs luteous.
This bird, on obferving any perfon, fets up a kind of
laugh.
71-
LAUGHING
F.
D escription-*
* This is likewife mentioned by Bancroft, who fays the bird diftends his
head with air, when either angry or terrified.— This ought to be enquired into,
as it muft arife from a ftrutture peculiar to this bird.— As to the diftenfion of
the throat and breaft of the Po-wter-Pigeon, it arifes merely from the crop being
filled with wind, and I believe has not any thing difterent in it’s llruflure
from that of other Pigeons.
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