Variety. To this fhort defcription I fhall add a further one, from a
'fpecimen in the fame collection as the laft. The length is fix-
teen inches. On the wings, when clofed, is a large fpot of a
buff-colour, croffed with flender ftripes of brown ; this mark
arifes from the greater quills, all of which, except the two firft,
•are buff-coloured in the middle: the under parts are whitifh, but
-on the breaft and belly many of the feathers have a dafh of brown,
and fome few wholly brown: crown of the head dafhed with brown:
thighs pale buff, obfoletely ftreaked with brown.
This came from Cayenne. A paper fent with it, gave it the
name of “ Pagani gris tacheté.” Many marks, both in this and
the laft fpecies, coincide fufficiently to pronounce them the fame
fpecies with thofe of Linnoeus referred to j and it is very probable
that they may be either varieties, or perhaps differing in fex
from thofe which he defcribes.
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BROWN
LANNER.
Falco lanarius, Lin. Syß. i. p» 129. N° 24«
Le Lanier, Brif. orn. i. p. 363. N° 16.
- ........■ — Buf. oif. i. p. 243.
Lanarius, Raiifyn. p. 15. N° 13.
Lanner, Will. orn. p. 82. Np 13.
Lanneret, Alb. vol. ii. t. 7.
Lanner, Br. Zool. N° 51. t. 23.
Lev. Muf.
Discmption. t r i H IS is rather inferior in fize to the Buzzard. The bill is
*"■ blue : cere pale greenifh blue : irides yellow : parts above
brown, with paler edges : crown of the head brown, mixed with
yellow clay-colour: over each eye is a broad white line paffing
fing to the hind head; beneath it a black mark pointing
downwards : throat white : breaft tinged with dull yellow,
marked with brown fpots pafling downwards : thighs and vent
the fame: the quills are duflty, marked with oval ferruginous
fpots on the inner webs: tail the lame: legs Ihort, ftrong, and
of a blueilh call.
Inhabits Europej breeds in Ireland-, one Ihot in a decoy in
Lincolnjhire. I believe it is far from common in England.
Le Lanier blanc, Brif. urn. i. p. 367. N5 18.
Lanarius, Aldro-v. orn. i. p. 380. Fig. in 181, 183 *.
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L.
O F thefe Brijfon mentions two forts from Aldrovandus: the ^
- „ . e r . „ D escription.
nrlt is one foot feven inches and a half long. Has the
bill and claws black: cere and irides yellow: head, neck, bread,
belly, fides, thighs, rump, and under tail-coverts, inclining to
brown : the quills, and the tail above, nearly black: under the
tail pale grey: cere yellow : legs luteous.
The fecond has the bill, &c. the fame with the other, but y AR &
is two feet one inch in length. The head and back brown,
mixed with grey: rump whitifh : upper wing-coverts and breaft
grey : belly, fides, thighs, and under tail-coverts, grey alfo, but
marked with longitudinal ferruginous fpots : the three outfide
tail-feathers are white, fpotted with pale ferruginous: the fourth
on each fide, counting from the outfide, fpotted with black 5 the
two middle ones are grey. Perhaps they are both varieties of
the Brown Lamer.
Brijfon does not mention their place.
* Thefe figures are not accurate.