28 HOBBY. 



A third is light yellowish brown, but darker than the last mentioned, 

 marked in the same way, but more suffused. 



A fourth is of a decided reddish cast, but light and clear in colour, 

 and elegantly marked all over with small darker streaked spots of 

 reddish brown. 



Mr. Hewitson describes the eggs generally as being very much like 

 some of those of the Kestrel, as well as those of the Merlin; but says 

 that they are larger than either; of a pinker hue, less suffused with 

 colour, and marked with fewer of the small black dots which are 

 scattered over the surface of the others. 



The young remain for some time in the neighbourhood of the nest, 

 until they have gradually learned to cater for themselves. 



