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and fome of the vale, woods. It is in the greateft numbers in the 

 weft and north- weft parts, where many of them ufually join com- 

 pany, and in towering undulating flights look out for young 

 poultry, which is no fooner perceived by the old ones, than they 

 warn their little offspring by a fignal to take flicker under then- 

 wings ; but the unwary wanderer is fure to be feized and carried 

 off. It is a great deftroyer of wood-pigeons, and in the fcarcity 

 of fuch dainties condefcends to live upon mice. 



4. The Dove-coloured Falcon, with black pointed wings, and the 

 bread elegantly variegated with brown and white in tranfverfe 

 lines, ufually called the Hen-Harroiv, and the Henharrier (f), 

 breeds annually on Cheviot, and on the fliady precipices under 

 the Roman wall by Cra^-lake, and on thofe of great Waney-honfe- 

 crag near Siveetbope-lake. The Hen is of a rufty brown, with a 

 white fpot under, the eyes ; the breaft and belly of a reddifh- 

 white ; the train variegated with black and yellowifh-red tranf- 

 verfe lines alternately, the red broadeft ; the rump white, which 

 in flying has the appearance of a ring, from which fhe acquired 

 the name of the Ring-Tail. They are feldom feen together, ex- 

 cept in the breeding-feafon ; which, with their different coloured 

 plumage, has made them often taken for a diftinct fpecies. The 

 male on the approach of any body whilft the hen is with her 

 eggs or her young, flies about in great perplexity, and makes a 

 harfh odd kind of noife. She lays four eggs in the recefles of 

 the fteepeft precipices by the lakes, and on the ground upon 

 Cheviot, among the Erica. The young being furprized in the 



(f) Pyg ar g us> Sellan. Icon. 15. Pygargus, f. Albicilla Hinnularia. JVill. Orn. 31. Raj. 

 Av. p. 7. n. 5. Charlet. Av. p. yo. n. 4. Falco cera flava j re&ricibus albis, verfus apices 

 nigris. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 19. n. 58. 



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