. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . r countryman, Latham, makes twelvevarieties of the Common Falcon, of which one is a youngFalcon, or yearling—another is the Haggard, or old Fal-con—^\vhilst others differ only in some unessential point,arising from age, sex, or climate. Buffon, however, re-duces the whole to two kinds—the Gentil, which he sup-poses to be the same with the Common Falcon, differingonly in season •, and the Peregrine or Passenger last is rarely met with in Britain, and consequentlyis but little known with us: it is about the size of theComm
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . r countryman, Latham, makes twelvevarieties of the Common Falcon, of which one is a youngFalcon, or yearling—another is the Haggard, or old Fal-con—^\vhilst others differ only in some unessential point,arising from age, sex, or climate. Buffon, however, re-duces the whole to two kinds—the Gentil, which he sup-poses to be the same with the Common Falcon, differingonly in season •, and the Peregrine or Passenger last is rarely met with in Britain, and consequentlyis but little known with us: it is about the size of theCommon Falcon •, its bill is blue, black at the point; cereand irides yellow; the upper parts of the body are ele-gantly marked with bars of blue and black; the breast isof a yellowish white, marked with a few small duskylines; the belly, thighs, and vent are of a greyish white,crossed with dusky bands ; the quills are dusky, spotted: with white *, the tail is finely barred with blue and black:the legs are yellow; the claws black. 72 BRITISH BIRDS. 6^. THE HEN-HARRIER. DOVE-COLOURED FALCON, OR BLUE HAWK.(Faico Cyaneusf Lin.—UOlfeau St. Martin^ BufF.) The length seventeen Inches; breadth, from tip totip, somewhat more than three feet. The bill is black,and covered at the base with long bristly feathers; thecere, irides, and edges of the eyelids are yellow: theupper parts of the body are of a bluish grey colour,mixed with light tinges of rusty ; the breast and undercoverts of the wings are white, the former marked withrusty-coloured streaks, the latter with bars of the samecolour; the greater quills are black, the secondaries andlesser quills ash coloured ; on the latter, in some birds, aspot of black In the middle of each feather forms a baracross the wing; the two middle feathers of the tall aregrey, the next three are marked on their inner webswith dusky bars, the two outermost are marked with al- BRITISH BIRDS. 73 temate bars of white and rust colour: the legs are lon
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