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AVES. 
Falco nisus. —The Sparrow-Hawk.— Female. 
Plate XXXVI. fig. 7. 
Upper parts slate colour; neck with a white spot; under 
parts white, with brown undulated bars ; tail ash-gray, with five 
darker bars; cere greenish-yellow; feet and iris yellow. Twelve 
inches long; male a third less, brown and barred all over. In¬ 
bits Europe. 
Sub-Genus 3.— Kites. —With oblique nostrils, having a fold 
at their exterior margin; tarsus short, feathers extending a little 
under the knee; wings very long, the third and fourth quills 
longest ; tail forked. 
Falco milcus. — The Kite, or Gled. 
Plate XXXIX. fig. 1. 
Head and neck grayish-white, streaked with lines of dusky- 
black; upper parts of the body and wings orange-brown ; under 
parts bright orange, with indistinct bars of black ; tail long, 
much forked, thighs with long plumes; tarsus short and scaled. 
Two feet two inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Sub-Genus 4.— Buzzards. —Beak small, and bent from the 
base; wings somewhat shorter than the tail, the first four fea¬ 
thers notched near their tip; first quills very short, the fourth 
being the longest; feathers on the thighs long and pendulous ; 
tarsus short, talons slightly hooked. 
Falco buteo. — The Common Buzzard. 
Plate XXXVI. fig. 6. 
General plumage rusty-brown above, white and rusty be¬ 
neath ; cere, iris, and legs dull yellow. Twenty-one inches 
long. Inhabits Europe. 
Sub-Genus 5.—Harriers. —Beak bent from its base; nos¬ 
trils ovate; tail long, rounded ; wings long, first quill very short, 
the third and fourth longest; tarsus long and slender. 
