ORANGE-LEGGED FALCOxV. 3l5 



webs barred, with paler intervals. The cheeks and throat are 

 white ; the eyes encircled with black, of which there is also a 

 short mystachial band ; the breast and sides pale red, with red- 

 dish-brown longitudinal streaks ; the tibial feathers plain red- 

 dish, the abdomen and lower tail-coverts lighter ; the lower 

 wing-coverts rufous, with dark-brown transverse bars ; the 

 lower surface of the primaries greyish-white, with transverse 

 bars of black ; that of the tail bluish-grey with bars of bluish- 

 black, the last bar larger. 



Length to end of tail 13 inches ; wing from flexure 9^ ; 

 tail 5g ; bill j\^ ; tarsus 1 j^^^ ; middle toe 1^^^, its claw ^%, 



Habits. — It is to Mr Yarrell that we are indebted for the 

 first notice of the occurrence of this beautiful falcon in Britain. 

 In the fourth volume of jMr Loudon's Magazine of Natural 

 History, he states that three individuals, an adult male, an 

 adult female, and a young male, were obtained in May 1830, 

 at Horning, in Norfolk, and that a female was shot in Holk- 

 ham Park. Another individual, he informs us, was shot in 

 the same county in 1832. Two specimens obtained in York- 

 shire, one in the county of Durham, and two more, one of 

 which was kept two years in the Menagerie of the Zoological 

 Society, the other obtained in the neighbourhood of Devon- 

 port, complete the list of individuals procured in England. 

 None have hitherto been found in Scotland, and only one is 

 recorded as having been killed in Ireland. According to M. 

 Temminck, it inhabits woods and thickets, and is common in 

 Russia, Poland, Austria, Tyrol, Switzerland, and the dis- 

 tricts on the northern side of the Appenines. It is said to 

 feed on small birds and coleopterous insects, and to nestle in 

 trees ; but its habits have not been fully described. 



YouxG. — When fledged, the young are described by Mr 

 Yarrell as follows : " The top of the head reddish-brown with 

 dusky streaks ; the eyes encircled with black, with a small 

 pointed moustache descending from the anterior part of the eye ; 

 ear-coverts white ; upper surfoce of the body dark-brown ; the 

 feathers ending with reddish-brown ; wing primaries dusky 



