84? AVES RAPTORES. [FALCO, 



red : claws yellow : wings reaching to the extremity of 

 the tail. 



F. rufipes, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 33. Orange-legged 

 Hobby, Lath. Syn. Supp. n. p. 46. Selb. Tllust. vol. i. p. 45. 

 pi. B. Red-footed Falcon, Gould, Europ. Birds. 



DIMENS. Entire length ten inches six lines. TEMM. 



DESCRIPT. (Adult male.) Head, neck, breast, belly, and all the upper 

 parts, dark lead-gray, without spots ; thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts, 

 deep ferruginous : cere, orbits, and feet, bright red : claws yellow, the 

 tips brown. (Female.) Head and neck of a uniform reddish colour, 

 without streaks ; rest of the upper parts dusky blue ; all the feathers, 

 except the quills, edged with bluish black; under parts deep reddish, 

 streaked with dusky brown : thighs red : tail bluish gray, with six or 

 seven dusky bars, the tip also of this colour : cere, orbits, and feet, orange- 

 red. (Young.) Top of the head brown, with dusky streaks; throat 

 and ear-coverts white; eyes encircled with black; also a small black 

 moustache extending from beneath the eye downwards : upper parts 

 brown, the feathers with reddish brown edges; under parts yellowish 

 white, with longitudinal brown streaks on the breast and abdomen : 

 thighs without spots : tail with numerous alternate bars of brown and 

 reddish white; the tip white. (Egg.) Unknown. 



Three specimens of this species, unknown before as a native of this 

 country, occurred at Horning in Norfolk, in May 1830. They consisted 

 of an adult male, a female, and a young male in immature plumage. A 

 fourth specimen was killed afterwards in Holkham Park, in the same 

 county ; and a fifth in Yorkshire. Said to feed on insects. Nidification 

 unknown. 



10. F. Tinnunculus, Linn. {Kestril.) Upper plumage 

 reddish brown, spotted with black : cere and feet yellow : 

 claws black : wings reaching to three-fourths the length 

 of the tail. 



F. Tinnunculus, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. i. p. 29. Kestril, Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. I. pp. 39 and 41. Selb. Illust. 

 vol. i. p. 47. pis. 17 and 17*. 



DIMENS. Entire length fifteen inches : length of the bill (from the 

 forehead) nine lines and a half, (from the gape) ten lines and a half; of 

 the tarsus one inch eight lines ; of the tail seven inches seven lines ; from 

 the carpus to the end of the wing nine inches ten lines: breadth, wings 

 extended, two feet six inches. 



DESCRIPT. (Male.) Crown of the head and nape bluish gray : upper 

 parts reddish brown, with scattered black spots of an angular form : 

 breast, belly, and thighs, white, inclining to reddish, with oblong brown 

 spots : rump bluish gray : tail cinereous, with one broad black bar near 

 the extremity ; the tip white : bill bluish : cere, orbits, irides, and feet, 

 yellow. (Female.) All the upper parts reddish orange, with transverse 

 bars of dusky brown : tail reddish, with numerous black bars ; one broad 

 bar near the extremity, which last is reddish white. (Young.) Upper 

 part of the head, and nape, reddish brown with dark streaks ; rest of the 

 plumage above with numerous arrow-shaped spots: a blackish streak 

 under each eye, arising from the corners of the mouth, and extending 

 to the neck : tail reddish, with transverse dusky bars in both sexes, as in 



