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brown, with light yellowish-red margins ; on the hind-neck 

 yellowish-white, each with a terminal streak of dark brown. 

 The general colour of the upper parts is hair-brown or greyish- 

 brown, the feathers edged with yellowish-red ; the scapulars 

 with three broad conceded whitish bands. The quills are 

 brown, broadly barred with darker, and tipped with whitish. 

 The tail is alternately banded with dark brown and light 

 greyish-brown, and largely tipped with white, there being five 

 dark bands on the middle feathers. The lower parts are light 

 yellowish-red, or reddish-white ; the throat, legs, and lower 

 tail-coverts with longitudinal blackish-brown lines, the ante- 

 rior part of the breast with oblong, and the rest with lanceolate 

 spots of the same colour. 



Remarks. — In a list of the birds of Shetland, with which I 

 have been favoured by Dr Laurence Edmondston, that gentle- 

 man, whom a long residence and continued observation have 

 rendered familiar with the productions of those islands, has 

 the following note : — " Falco Palumbarius is not uncommon 

 at all seasons. I have not myself seen its nest, but it is said 

 to build in rocky cliffs. It preys chiefly on rabbits and pigeons." 

 A Shetland specimen of this very rare bird would be a great 

 acquisition to the London or Edinburgh Museums. 



