. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . he fame below. Legs dufky. Mergus Minutus: capite grifeo kevi. Fn. Suec.—Lttm. Syjl. Nat. i. p. 129. 5,Mergus tinus, Hafelq. It, p. 269. N°. 37. « glacial is, Brunnich, N°. 99. 11 pannonicus. Scop. Ann. 1
. The natural history of British birds, or, A selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country : the descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus : with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists : and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens . he fame below. Legs dufky. Mergus Minutus: capite grifeo kevi. Fn. Suec.—Lttm. Syjl. Nat. i. p. 129. 5,Mergus tinus, Hafelq. It, p. 269. N°. 37. « glacial is, Brunnich, N°. 99. 11 pannonicus. Scop. Ann. 1. p. 392. The Wezel Coot. Albin. orn. 84. /. Diver. Rail Syn. p. i^—Will om. p. 338. Minute PLATE LH. Minute Merganser. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 429. 6. Red-headed Smew. Pen. Br. Zool. 263. LHarle etoile. Brif. av. 6. 252.—Buf. oij. 8. p. 278. Le petit Harle huppe, ( Brif. orn. 6. p. 243. 24. fig. 2, This bird is found in the fouthern parts of England in is faid to be found as far fouth as latitude 37, being met with»in the ifland of Fino ; in the Archipelago #, it migrates towards thenorth in fummer, to breed along with the other Merganfers; and istherefore met with during that feafon in Iceland, Lapland, and otherArctic regions. Length fourteen inches and a half: breadth twenty-three inches :weight fifteen ounces. * Lath. Gen. Syn. PLATE 55. PLATE LIIL FALCO FALCON. ACCIPITRES. Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in eachmargin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females largerand more beautiful than the males. GENERIC CHARACTER. Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-likemembrane or cere. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Cere, legs and feet yellow. Beak blue. Above afh colour bar*red with black and brown. Beneath white tinged with brown, withlongitudinal and tranfverfe lines. Falco Peregrinus. Rail Syn. p. 13. No, , or Haggard Faicon. Will. Orn. p. 76. u 8*Blue backed Falcon. Ch
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