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remigihus Jusco-hrunneis ad apicem Juscis, pogoniis internis 

 Jasciis quinquejuscis gracilibus, albogue ad basin notatis. 

 Rostrum ad basin flavum, ad apicem nigrum. Pedes flavi ; 

 unguibus nigris. Longiludo corporis I65 — 17 unc, caudce 

 6^-7. 

 This bird has the three stripes upon the throat, and the aspect 

 of Falco trivirgatus, Temm., fig. 303, but it is a much larger 

 bird than M. Temminck's, and has otherwise characters in the 

 plumage to entitle it to a specific distinction. A couple of mice 

 were found in the stomach of one bird. Sexes alike in plumage. 

 Female a little larger than the malė. 



Sub-Fam. Falconina. 

 Genus Falco, Auct. Falcon. 



13. Falco Tinnunculus, Linn. Kestril. 



Irides intense brown. A very abundant bird in the Dukhun. 

 Both sexes are absolutely identical with the European birds 

 in their characteristic plumage. Colonel Sykes, nevertheless, 

 mentions his being in possession of a malė bird exactly likę the 

 female of the Kestril in plumage and size, and, conseąuently, 

 larger than the malė Kestril: and as this was shot from a party 

 of five or six, perched on the šame tree, and without a malė 

 Kestril in company, he is induced to believe there is a distinct 

 species, in which both sexes have the plumage of the female 

 European Kestril. Remains of rats, mice, lizards, grasshoppers, 

 and a bird, were found in the stomach of several specimens. 

 In one stomach theremains of no less than four lizards were 

 met with. 



1 4. Falco Chicąuera, Lath. Le CIiicquera, Le Vaill., Ois. d'Afr. pi. 22. 

 Irides sanguineous. A conimon bird in the Dukhun. Sexes alike 



in plumage. Female usualiy the larger bird ; but Colonel 

 Sykes has a malė quite as large as any female. A sparrow 

 was found in the stomach of one malė bird, and a young bat in 

 the stomach of another. 



Sub-Fam. Buteonina. Buzzards. 

 Genus Circus, Auct. Harrier, 



15. Circus pallidus. Circ. pallide griseus, alis dorsoąue aatura- 



tioribiis ; subtiis albus ; uropygio albo, griseo Jasciatim notato ; 



rectricibus, diiabus mediis exceptis, griseo alboąue Jasdatis ; 



remigibus tertid ąuarta quintaque Juscis. 



inVf<?5 viridi-flavae. S- ^ongitačo corporis \9^ \mc., caudce 

 9| ; 9 corporis 21^ j caudce 10. 

 This bird has usualiy been considered the Circ. cyaneus of Eu- 

 rope ; but it differs in the shade of its plumage (malė and fe- 

 male) J in the back-head of the malė not being white spotted 

 with pale brovvn ; in the absence of dusky streaks on the breast; 

 in the rump and upper tail-coverts being whjte barred with 

 brovvn ash ; in the inner webs of four of the tail-feathers not 

 being white; and in the bars of the undertail being seven instead 

 of four. The female resembles the female of Circ. cyaneus, but 



