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on dieir Inner webs as in the old birds ; and the tail, 

 whkh is greyish-brown, has the two middle feathers 

 plain, but the rest marked with transverse bands of 

 li^ht red, disappearing at the inner third of the outer 

 web ; the tips of the tail and quills reddish- white. The 

 throat is yellowish-white, and there is a ring of the 

 same round the neck, but indistinct behind. The breast 

 and abdomen are yellowish-white, with longitudinal 

 bands of deep brown ; and the thighs, which are pale 

 yellowish-red, are similarly streaked, while the lower 

 tail-coverts are yellowish-white with brown shafts. 



Rebiarks. — The only vernaculai- name known to me 

 is the Hobby, or Common Hobby. Linnaeus seems to 

 have confounded it with the merlin. 



Falco Subbuteo. Linn. Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 127. 



Falco Subbuteo. Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. i. p, 47. 



Hobby. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Faucon Hobereau. Falco Subbuteo. Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 25. 



Falco Subbuteo. Hobby. Flem. Brit. Anim. p. 49. 



Hobby. Falco Subbuteo. Selby. Illustr. vol. i. p. 4S, 



