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the back of the head and two white spots on the 
tertials; throat white, running into yellowish rusty 
on the sides; breast and all the under parts nearly 
white, transversely marked with frequent short bars 
of yellowish rusty; under tail-coverts white; tail 
bluish grey, barred with dusky. The general 
colouring of the upper parts of the young birds is 
dark brown, the feathers being more or less broadly 
bordered with rusty; throat white, streaked with 
brown ; under parts something like the mature bird, 
but much darker, in consequence of the transverse 
bars being much broader and of a darkish brown 
colour; tail brown, barred with darker, each feather 
narrowly edged with rusty; quills dusky; shafts 
rusty, and in a few of the feathers the outer web 
rusty; the legs are yellow in all. The young nest- 
lings are covered with white down, much like young 
Kestrels. 
The eggs of the Sparrowhawk are much less hable 
to be mistaken than those of the last three species. 
The ground colour is a sort of light green (which in 
preserved specimens fades almost to white, and quite 
so if they are kept much in the light), more or less 
blotched with rich red-brown: size nearly the same 
as those of the Kestrel. 
Kite, Milvus vulgaris. Vhe Kite is now becoming 
very rare throughout England, its size rendering it 
conspicuous to keepers and others who wish for its 
destruction. It is said to take its prey principally 
