188 Mr. Montagu's Remarks on Falco cyaneus, 



thors, which is doubtless this bird in change of plumage; arid 

 it will be observed, that mention is made in the Ornithological 

 Dictionary of some slight indication of such a change ; one had 

 only a few gray feathers, beginning the change, and another had 

 several brown feathers in the smaller coverts of the wings, which 

 now appear to be the last that are changed. 



I have now only to remark that the nest of this bird was com- 

 posed of sticks rudely put together, was nearly flat, and placed 

 on some fallen branches of furze that supported it just above 

 the ground. The addle egg found in the nest is little inferior to 

 that of the Moor-Buzzard, and similar in shape and colour, 

 being spotless, but of a sullied white. 



Falco cinerareus. 

 Ash-coloured Falcon. Orn. Dictionary. 



By the examination of a recent specimen of this bird killed on 

 the 10th of August 1803, near Kingsbridge, in Devonshire, I 

 am enabled to add somewhat to the description of it, and to cor- 

 rect a mistake in the work above referred to, which I trust will 

 not be unacceptable to the ornithologist. 



It weighed nine ounces and three quarters : length eighteen 

 inches ; breadth three feet eight inches and a half; length from 

 the elbow to the end of the third quill feather, which is the 

 longest, fifteen inches and a half; length of the tail from the 

 gland on the rump nine inches and a half. Bill black, the base 

 and cere greenish : irides and eyelids bright yellow : crown of 

 the head, cheeks, throat, under part of the neck, and upper breast 

 dark ash-colour : upper part of the neck, back, and scapulars 



cinereous- 



