IO4.
JOHANNA F.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
P l a c e .
105.
MADAGASCAR
F.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
S I Z E uncertain. Bill black; bafe o f the under mandible yellow
: head, neck, and under parts o f the body, ferruginous,
marked with black linear fpots; quills and tail black brown;
the laft cuneiform in fhape; its coverts whitith : legs yellow.
Inhabits India, the ifland o f Johanna. The defcription taken
from a manufcript in the poftefiion of the late Dr. Fothergill.
L’Autour $ ventre rayé de Madagafcar, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. p. 101. pi. 103.'
C I Z E o f a Pheafant. Bill black, curved from the bafe : the
eye furrounded with a naked yellow fkin, reaching from the
bafe of the bill to the hind head ; irides yellow : the top o f the
head, neck, back, and wing coverts, pale cinereous grey; the
larger coverts marked with black near the tips : quills white,
within half way from the bafe barred with duiky black, the end
half black : under part o f the wings ftriated white and black :
bread:, belly, and rump, white, marked with curved black bands :
tail black, eroded about the middle with a band o f white dotted
with black : legs yellow.
Inhabits Madagafcar, where it is called by the French Aigle
rayé. The manners are not faid; but, from the bill being lels
hooked in the plate than mentioned in the defcription, from the
fides of the head being fo very bare, and the claws very little
hooked, I have my fufpicions of its rather belonging to the Vulture
genus, than that of the Falcon.
S I Z E
F A L C O - N. 33
O IZ E la r g e , and o f a very flout make; length two feet or
more. Bill blue at the bale, black at the tip : irides pale yellow
: general colour of the plumage deep brown ; before the
eyes marked with white : the head feathers are fomewhat elongated,
but fcarcely fo much as to be called a creft: wing coverts
marked with frnall white fpots : quills darker than the reft of the
plumage : tail the fame, crofted in the middle with a bar o f white
about an inch and -a half broad: thighs and belly o f a paler
brown than the upper parts; the firft marked with a few white
fpots, the laft plain : legs o f a pale yellow, fcaly : claws black.
Inhabits India, where it is not uncommon : known there by the
name of Cheela *.
■ 107.
RUFOUST
E N G T H nineteen inches. Bill black-brown ; cere yellow : HEADED F.
■ head and neck rufous, each feather dafhed with brown ; D e s c r i p t io n .
throat and behind the eyes marked with narrow ftripes of black :
back and rump brown ; fcapulars clouded, cinereous-grey barred
with brown : chin pale rufous yellow : under parts of the body
dirty white, crofted with numerous bars o f afh-colour: feathers
on the fides of the tail black and white mixed : tail feven inches
long, the four middle feathers crofted with a buff-coloured bar
an inch and a half from the end ; the others marked with five or
fix o f the fame, the tips alfo buff-coloured : quills cream-colour,
barred with narrow black lines, the ends blackifh; fecondaries
the fame, but barred only on the inner webs.
Inhabits Cayenne. Place.
* Mr. Middleton»
106.
CHEELA F.
D e s c r i p t i o n .
Place«.
F Falco,