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Lesser Kestrel, which was caught alive and kept for a 

 short time in confinement by a labourer on his farm in 

 the neighbourhood of Dover. The bird, which proved 

 to be an adult male, had one leg injured, which may have 

 prevented it from taking its natural prey and led to its 

 capture. In appearance it differs from the Common 

 Kestrel. In the first place, it has no markings on the 

 back, the colour being one rich reddish-brown. The 

 breast is light red, with a few markings, the more dis- 

 tinct ones being on the thigh-coverts; the head and tail 

 light ash-grey, the latter with a broad black band at the 

 extremity, and each feather edged with white except the 

 two centre ones, which are black at the tips. The claws 

 are white." 



Genus PANDION, Savigny. 

 OSPEEY. 



Fandion haliactus (Linn^us). S.N., i., p. 129 

 (1766). 



There is a specimen that was killed at Bearsted, in 

 Kent, in the Exeter Museum, the bequest of the Kev. 

 Bower-Scott. The Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, writing 

 in 1844, says : " A specimen in the Dover Museum was 

 shot in the neighbourhood, September 8, 1871." Mr. 

 G. E. Power says : " I obtained a specimen of the Osprey 

 in some marshes near Eainham. It is a male, and 

 apparently an immature bird. "When I first saw it some 

 Peewits were following and mobbing it ; afterwards it 

 settled on some saltings near the sea-wall, from which I 

 obtained an easy shot." Mr. G. Dowker records one 

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