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the inner edges and tips buffy white; the tail feathers 

 dark brown, with nunverous transverse bars of reddish- 

 brown. Tliroat white ; sides of the neck, the breast, 

 and all the under surface of the body, pale reddish- 

 wlntCj with browu longitudinal streaks and patches on 

 the breast ; the thighs and their long feathers uniform 

 pale ferruginous. Cere, beak, irides, tarsi, and nails, 

 as in the adult. 



" The tlu'ee birds of this species first obtained in 

 Norfolk were .in adult female and two young males, in 

 their second plumage ; one of them, however, still re- 

 tained the brown barred feathers on the outer portions 

 of the wing-coverts, and four of the barred tail feathers 

 of the preceding state. Four examples of this species 

 have been obtained in the county of Norfolk, and two 

 others, an adult male and female, have occurred in 

 Yorkshire- A female lived two years in the garden of 

 the Zoological Society in the Regent's Park." 



Remarks. — The Orange-legged Falcon has not been 

 observed in Scotland, and the above are the only in- 

 stances in which it has been obtained in this island. Ac- 

 cording to M. Temminck, it inhabits ivoods and thick- 

 ets, and is common in Russia, Poland, Austria, Tyrol, 

 Switzerland, and the districts on the northern side of 

 the Apennines. The same author states, that its food 

 consists of beetles and other insects. Mr Gould, in his 

 representation of this bird, has not attended to the form 

 and arrangement of the scales of the tarsi and toes, nor 

 added the ciliary bristles to the eyelids, of w hich the 

 upper is in the figure of the female, overhung by a se- 

 micircular projection, such as I have not seen in any 



