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English naturalists, this bird always makes its nest on the 

 bare ground. In Scandinavia, however, it frequently builds 

 in clefts or ledges of rocks, or in trees. It lays from three to 

 five eggs, roundish in form, and of a reddish-yellow colour, 

 marked with diminutive dark brown spots. Migrates. 



The Kestril (Torn-Falk, or Tower-Falcon, Sw. ; Falco 

 Tinnunculus, Linn.) ; very common in the vicinity of Ron- 

 num, as also over the larger portion of Scandinavia, though 

 more so in the southern than in the northern provinces of 

 Sweden. It is not supposed to be found beyond the polar 

 circle. Its Swedish designation it derives from making its 

 nest in old ruins and towers, which, as regards Scandinavia, 

 is not the case with any other of the hawk tribe. Migrates. 



The Red-legged Falcon (Falco ntfipes, Besecke) whose 

 proper home is eastern Europe though not included in the 

 Scandinavian Fauna, has, Kjserbdlling says, occasionally been 

 shot in Denmark. 



The Goshawk (Duf-Hok, or Dove-Hawk, Sw ; Accipiter 

 palumbarius, Will.) ; common with us, as well as every- 

 where else throughout the peninsula. This is one of the 

 most destructive of birds ; for it attacks as well the smallest 

 of the feathered tribe, as even the capercali. Migrates. 



The female makes her nest, which' is of a very large size, 

 in the middlemost branches of a spruce-pine, and generally 

 near to a natural vista in the forest. She lines it with wool, 

 hair, &c., and lays from two to three eggs, which, though 

 they vary somewhat, are commonly of a blueish-white colour. 



A curious anecdote is related of this bird. 



" During the last summer but one," writes M. Edgren, 

 "when taking a drive with a neighbouring proprietor through 

 a wood, the sun became so powerful, that we were neces- 



