ACCIPITRES. 



RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



c??^^):S^&t 



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FALCONID^E. 



Falco vespertinus, Linnteus*. 

 THE EED-FOOTED FALCON. 



Falco riifipes\. 



The Ked-footed Falcon, or Orange-legged Hobby, is u 

 species of small size, and so much in its general contour 

 resembling the Hobby, that Buffon described and figured the 



' Syst. Ntit. Ed. VI, i. p. Vl^^i (17(56). t Beseke, Vogel Kurkuids, \>. 20 (1792). 



