HOBBY. RAPTORES. FALCO. 45 



dark brown streaks. Thighs and under tail-coverts buff- 

 orange. Quills black, the inner webs of the feathers 

 having orange-brown spots. The first quill having a 

 deep notch or sinuation on the inner web, about an inch 

 from the tip ; the second having the outer web obliquely 

 sinuated, and being the longest in the wing ; the first 

 exceeding the third in length. Tail greyish-black, the 

 outer feathers having yellowish-brown bars on their in- 

 ner webs. Tarsi and toes yellow. Claws black. 



ORANGE-LEGGED HOBBY. 



FALCO RUFIPES, Bechst. 



PLATE B. 



Falco rufipes, Bechst, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 39 Shaw's Zool, 13. 39. 

 Falco vespertinus, Linn. Syst. 1. 129 Gmel Syst. 1. 282. 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 46. sp. 109. female. 

 Variet^ singuliere de Hobereau, Buff. PL Enl. 431. 

 Faucon a pieds rouges, ou Hobez, Tenon. Man. d'Orn. 2. 33. 

 Rothf ussiger Falk, Meyer, Vog. Deut. Heft. 18. m. f. 

 Ingrian Falcon, Lath. Syn. 1. 102. 88 Id. Sup. 27 Lath. Gen. Hist. 1. 



122. No. 49 Shaw's Zool. 7- 190. 



Orange-legged Hobby, Lath. Syn. 2. 46 Id. Gen. Hist. 1. 124, 51. 

 Red-footed Falcon, Gould's Birds of Europe. 



SPECIMENS of this Falcon having been killed in Norfolk, Occasional 

 I now insert it in the list of our Fauna as an occasional visit- 

 ant. In form and general appearance it bears a strong re- 

 semblance to the Hobby, though of smaller dimensions ; pos- 

 sessing also the characteristic length of wing that distin- 

 guishes the typical forms of the genus. The wings, when 

 closed, reach to the end of the tail, and are very sharp- 

 pointed ; the second feather is the longest, by about half an 

 inch ; and the first and third, in the specimen now before 

 me, are of equal length. At one inch and a quarter from 

 the tip, the first quill has its inner web (as in the Hobby) 

 abruptly notched ; of the second, the outer web alone is very 

 obliquely sinuated. The tarsi (which are feathered in front 



