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remigibus fusco-brunneis ad apicem Juscis, pogoniis internis 

 Jasciis quinque Juscis gracilibus, alboque ad basin notatis. 

 Rostrum ad basin flavum, ad apicem nigrum. Pedes flavi ; 

 unguibus nigris. Longitudo corporis 16| — 17 una, caudce 

 6±— 7. 

 This bird has the three stripes upon the throat, and the aspect 

 of Falco trivirgatus, Temm., fig. 303, but it is a much larger 

 bird than M. Temminck's, and has otherwise characters in the 

 plumage to entitle it to a specific distinction. A couple of mice 

 were found in the stomach of one bird. Sexes alike in plumage. 

 Female a little larger than the male. 



Sub-Fam. Falconina. 

 Genus Falco, Auct. Falcon. 



13. Falco Tinnunculus, Linn. Kestril. 



Irides intense brown. A very abundant bird in the Dukhun. 

 Both sexes are absolutely identical with the European birds 

 in their characteristic plumage. Colonel Sykes, nevertheless, 

 mentions his being in possession of a male bird exactly like the 

 female of the Kestril in plumage and size, and, consequently, 

 larger than the male Kestril: and as this was shot from a party 

 of five or six, perched on the same tree, and without a male 

 Kestril in company, he is induced to believe there is a distinct 

 species, in which both sexes have the plumage of the female 

 European Kestril. Remains of rats, mice, lizards, grasshoppers, 

 and a bird, were found in the stomach of several specimens. 

 In one stomach theremains of no less than four lizards were 

 met with. 



14. Falco Chicquera, Lath. Le Chicquera, Le Vaill., Ois. d'Afr. pi. 22. 

 Irides sanguineous. A common bird in the Dukhun. Sexes alike 



in plumage. Female usually the larger bird j but Colonel 

 Sykes has a male quite as large as any female. A sparrow 

 was found in the stomach of one male bird, and a young bat in 

 the stomach of another. 



Sub-Fam. Buteonina. Buzzards. 

 Genus Circus, Auct. Harrier. 



15. Circus pallidus. Circ. pallide griseus, alis dorsoque satura- 



tioribus ; subtus albus ; uropygio albo, griseo Jasciatim notato ; 



rectricibus, duabus mediis exceptis, griseo alboque Jasciatis ; 



remigibus tertid quarta quint aque Juscis. 



Irides viridi-flavae. $. Longitudo corporis 19| una, caudce 

 9| ', 9 corporis 21^ ; caudce 10. 

 This bird has usually been considered the Circ. cyaneus of Eu- 

 rope ; but it differs in the shade of its plumage (male and fe- 

 male) j in the back-head of the male not being white spotted 

 with pale brown ; in the absence of dusky streaks on the breast; 

 in the rump and upper tail-coverts being white barred with 

 brown ash ; in the inner webs of four of the tail-feathers not 

 being white; and in the bars of the under tail being seven instead 

 of four. The female resembles the female of Circ. cyaneus, but 



