feather of which is brown: the bread, belly, thighs, and vent,
are reddilh buff-colour ; the laft the paleft : the feathers on the
bread: and belly have a brown dreak down the fhafts:: thighs and
vent plain: prime quills dark on the inner, and cinereous blue
on the outer webs, with bars of brown at an inch didance each;
thefe bars are lefs diftinft on the inner webs : the fird and
fecond o f the quills'are quite plain, without markings: the fe-
condaries are much the fame as the prime quills, but the brown
bars rather obfolete : mod of the wing-feathers are white at the
tips: the wings when clofed, reach the middle of the ta il: rump-
white : the tail barred with pale and dark brown-; the inner
webs of three or four of the outer feathers have much white on
the inner webs ; the outer webs incline to ferruginous; the ends
of the feathers are very pale j the two middle feathers are barred
as the reft, but with cinereous and deep brown; the bars are five
in number : legs yellow : claws black.
This bird came from Cayenne, and is in Mifs Blomefield’s collection.
It was entitled Due de Buff on.— It feems clearly a variety
of the laft fpecies, differing only from climate: hence we learn,
that thefe birds are diffeminated throughoqt America, as the ifland
of Cayenne and Hudfon’s Bay are very far afunder. It is worth remark,
the near refemblance of the four lafl-defcribed, fo much
indeed, that with the lefs fcrupulous ornithologid, they might;
even pafs for mere ‘varieties- of each other.
Le Faucon de Roche, ou Rochier, Brif. or»r i, p. 349. N° 8*
Le Rochier, Buf. oif. i. p. 286.— PI. enl. 447.
Lithofalco, & Dendrofalco, Rati Syn. p, 14. N° 8.
Stein-falck, Frifch. t. 86.
Stone, or Tree falcon, Will. orn. p. 80.
g I Z E of a Keflril : length twelve inches and a quarter. Bill
blueilh afh-colour : cere and irides luteous: above cinereous,
with black fhafts to the feathers : beneath rufous, with longitudinal
brown fpots : tail cinereous ; at the end blackifh ; the very
tip white ; all the feathers, except the two middle ones, are
barred tranfverfely with black. This appears very like the Merlin,
reprefented in the Planches Enluminées, N° 468.
Le Faucon de Montagne, Brif. orn. i* p. 352. N° 9.
Falco montanus, Raii Syn. p. 13. X y 4.
Mountain Falcon, Will. orn. p. 78.
'J 'H IS is lefs than the Peregrine Falcon, but has a fhorter tail.
The bill is black: plumage above brown, or afh-colour:
throat and fore part of the neck whitifh, fpotted with either ferruginous
or black ; and in fome the neck and bread: are quite
black: tail afh-coloured, end black, the very tip white: legs
yellow: claws black. When the bird is come to it’s full colour,
the head is black; the bread has more white in it the oftener it
has moulted; and the back and fides are of a deeper afh-colour.
This is in brief what M. Briffon fays of the bird: but he remarks
the probability of it’s being a variety of the Stone Falcon,
and likewife mentions a further variety; which follows.
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STONE
FALCON.
DESCRIPTION.
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MOUNTAIN
F.
D e s c r i p t io n .