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ACCIPITRES. FALCONID^E. 



Falco vespertinus, LinnsBus*. 

 THE RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



Falco rufi]pes\. 



The Red-footed Falcon, or Orange-legged Hobby, is a 

 species of small size, and so much in its general contour 

 resembling the Hobby, that Buffon described and figured the 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 129 (1766). t Beseke, Vijgel Kiirlaiuls, p. 20 (1792). 



