FALCON ID.T.. 



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THE RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



Falco vespertinus, LinnicLis. 



This small species, otherwise known as the Orange-legged 

 Hobby, is, like its predecessor, a summer-visitor to Europe ; in 

 the eastern portions of which it has an extensive northern range, 

 though in the west its appearance is irregular. Upwards of 

 twenty examples have been recorded in the British Islands since 

 1830, when its appearance was first noticed in Norfolk, where, up 

 to the present time, seven specimens have been obtained ; Suffolk, 

 Berks, Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Devon, Cornwall, Den- 

 bighshire, Salop, Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland have 

 each been visited by it ; in Scotland one was shot in Aberdeenshire 

 in May 1866 ; and in Ireland another, now in the Dublin Museum, 



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