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remig;ibus Jlisco-brunneis ad apicerh Jliscis, pogoniis interiiis 

 Jasciis quinque Jliscis gracilibus, alboque ad basin notatis. 

 Rostrum ad basin flavum, ad apicem nigrum. Pedes flavi ; 

 iinguibus nigris. Longiludo corporis 16| — 17 unc, caudce 



6i— 7. 



This bird has the three stripes upon the throat, and the aspect 

 of Falco trivirgatus, Temm., fig. S0.3, but it is a much larger 

 bird than M. Temminck's, and has otherwise characters in the 

 plumage to entitle it to a specific distinction. A couple of mice 

 were found in the stomach of one bird. Se.xes alike in plumage. 

 Female a little larger than the male. 



Sub-Fam. Falconina. 

 Genus Falco, Auct. Falcon. 



13. Falco Thuiunculus, Linn. Kestril. 



Irides intense brown. A very abundant bird in the Dukhun. 

 Both sexes are absolutely identical with the European birds 

 in their characteristic plumage. Colonel Sykes, nevertheless, 

 mentions his being in possession of a male bird exactly like the 

 female of the Kestril in plumage and size, and, consequently, 

 larger than the male Kestril: and as this was shot from a party 

 of five or six, perched on the same tree, and without a male 

 Kestril in company, he is induced to believe there is a distinct 

 species, in which both sexes have the plumage of the female 

 European Kestril. Remains of rats, mice, lizards, grasshoppers, 

 and a bird, were found in the stomach of several specimens. 

 In one stomach theremains of no less than four lizards were 

 met with. 



1 4. Falco Chicquera, Lath. Le Chicquera, Le Vaill., Ois. d'Afr. pi. 22. 

 Irides sanguineous. A common bird in the Dukhun. Sexes alike 



in plumage. Female usually the larger bird ; but Colonel 

 Sykes has a male quite as large as any female. A sparrow 

 was found in the stomach of one male bird, and a young bat in 

 the stomach of another. 



Sub-Fam. Buteonina. Buzzards. 

 Genus Circus, Auct. Harrier. 



15. Circus pallidus. Circ, pallide griseus, alis dorsoqne satura- 



tioribus ; subtus albus ; uropygio albo, griseo Jasciatim notato ; 



rectricibus, duabus mediis exceptis, griseo alboque fasciatis ; 



reniigibus tertid quarta quiv.laquejuscis. 



Irides viridi-flavae. $. Longitudo corporis 19| unc, caudce 

 9\ ; ? corporis 21^ ; caudce 10. 

 This bird has usually been considered the Circ. cyaneus of Eu- 

 rope ; but it differs in the shade of its plumage (male and fe- 

 male) ; in the back-head of the male not being white spotted 

 with pale brown ; in the absence of dusk}'^ streaks on the breast; 

 in the rump and upper tail-coverts being white barred with 

 brown ash; in the inner webs of four of the tail-feathers not 

 being white ; and in the bars of the under tail being seven instead 

 of four. The female resembles the female of Circ. cyaneus, but 



