RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



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FALCONID^E. 



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FALCO VESPEKTINUS, Linnaeus*. 

 THE RED-FOOTED FALCON. 



Falco rufipes\. 



THE RED-FOOTED FALCON, or Orange-legged Hobby, is a 

 species of small size, and so much in its general contour 

 resembling the Hobby, that Buffon described and figured the 



* Syst. Nat. Ed. 1-2, i. p. 129 (1766). f Beseke, Vogel Kurlands, p. 20 (1792). 



