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neft when they are near full feathered, make a bold defence on 

 their backs with their iharp talons and hooked beaks, as I found 

 by an encounter I had with a pair of them in my younger days, 

 on the north fide of Cheviot, 



Thefe birds make great deftruclion of the wild ducks, and 

 other water-fowl, that breed in the lakes, and the mountain- 

 rivulets. They alfo do great mifchief to the game ; and of the 

 domeflic poultry they make fad havock in the fpring. 



5. We have thejrnall, brown, red-eyed Buzzard, with a yellow Cera 

 and eye-lids, and a train fhorter- than the wings (g) ; alfo the 

 rujly brown, yellow-eyed Honey-Buzzard, with a black Cera, and a 

 grey head (h), about mountainous woods and heaths. 



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6. The Falcon, called the Keftrel (i), is not unfrequent about 

 alpine hedges and woods, but its moft favourite recefs is in the 

 folitary ruins of the old caftlcs and towers. I have obferved 

 it in the hedges by the fteep mady cliffs at Tecket, and at a very 

 near diftance viewed it with a particular attention to its form 

 and colour. It is of the fize of a pidgeon. The head is ele- 



(g) Sub-buteo, feu Hypotriorchis. Charlet. Av. p. 72. n. to. Falco pedibus cera palpe- 

 brifque flavis, capite fufco, nucha alba, abdomine albicante maculis oblongis. Linn. Faun. 

 Suec. p. 21. n. 64. 



(b) Buteo apivorus, f. vefpivorus. IVilL Orn. p. 38. t. 3. Raj. Av. p. 16. n. 2. Acci- 

 piter Palumbarius. Alb. Orn. 2. p. 8. t. 8. 



(i) Tinnunculus, f. Cenchris, Will. Orn. p. 50. t. 5. Raj. Av. p. 16. n. 16. Charlet. 

 Av. 72. n. 6. 



Falco pedibus ceraque flavis ; dorfo refufcente ; pe<lore maculis longitudinalibus fufcis 5 

 cauda rotundata. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 22. n. 67. 



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