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PLAIN F. Plain Falcon, Arft, Zool. ii. N° 104.
D e s c r i p t io n . |~ ^ E N G T H two feet one inch. Bill black: head dulky: nape
fpotted with white: back, wing coverts, and tail, uniform
deep brown : under fide of the neck, bread, belly, and thighs,
deep brown, llightly fpotted with white : primaries dulky j inner
webs marked with great oval fpots of white, mottled with brown:
middle'feathers o f the tail plain brown ; inner webs o f the reft:
mottled with white ; exterior webs and ends llightly edged with
the fame: legs ftrong, yellow: wings nearly the length o f the
tail.
P l a c e . Inhabits Hudjon’s Bay.
100.
BLACK-NECKED
F.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Lev. Mu/.
J ^ E N G T H one foot eleven inches. Bill black: general colour
rufous, tranfverfely barred with bla ck; the bars very
narrow on the belly and thighs : behind the eye a ftreak o f black :
on the fore part of the neck a large patch o f black: top o f the
head and neck longitudinally ftriped with black: belly lhaded
with chefnut: quills black: end of the tail dulky : legs yellow :
claws black.
P l a c e . Inhabits Cayenne.
101.
WHITE-NECKED
F.
D e s c r i p t io n . T E N G T H one foot ten inches. Bill black: head, neck,
back, between the wings, and all beneath, white: on the
lower part o f the neck behind fome lozenge-lhaped black fpots :
wing
wing coverts black, fpotted with white: quills black half way
from the bafe, fpotted with white within ; fecondaries tipped with
white : legs ftout, yellow : claws black.
Inhabits Cayenne. P e a c e .
102.
ASIATIC F.
D e SC-RI PT to Kv
| ^ E N G TH twenty-one inches. General markings, o f the body
and wings greatly fimilar to the common Buzzard, but
much lefs in lize : bill blueifh black : bread cream colour, dalb-
ed down the lhafts with dulky black : belly, thighs, and vent,
white: quills grey, barred with dulky black : on the fecondaries
a bar o f the fame near the end : baftard wing and greater coverts
the fame : tail nine inches and a half long, rounded, o f a pale lil-
very grey s on the outer feather five or fix irregular dulky bars,
or rather blotches, down the lhaft, not very diftinft, the others
plain j the upper coverts white: legs yellow, feathered on the
fore part below the knees.
Inhabits China. In polfeffion o f Sir Jqfeph Banks. ' P e a c e .
Leverian1 Falcon, Ar8. Zool. N° i o i *
Lev. Mu/.
103.
LEVERIAN F.
hooked : the head, neck, and under parts, white : crown of
the head mixed brown and white : upper parts of the body brown,
the feathers margined and tipped with white: on each fide o f the
head a dulky mark, fituated as in the Ofprey r tail barred brown
and white, except the two middle feathers, which are brown and
b la ck ; the lhafts white: legs yellow.
Inhabits Carolina.
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