Kestrel. RAPTORES. FALCO. 47 



brown, barred with greyish-black. Back, wing-coverts 

 and scapulars deep bliiish-grey, each feather being 

 transversely barred with greyish-black. Quills with 

 their outer webs and tips blackish-grey, the remainder 

 of the inner webs having transverse oval white bars. 

 Breast and belly pale reddish-brown, tinged with cine- 

 reous, the shaft of each feather and a small spot near 

 the tip deep brown. Abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts pale buff, immaculate. Tail pale bluish-grey, 

 with nine black bars; the one nearest the tip being 

 double the breadth of the others. Legs and toes deep 

 orange-yellow. Claws yellowish white, with darker ends. 

 Outer toe scarcely exceeding the inner in length. Bill, 

 cere, and basal part of the under mandible, yellow ; the 

 tooth and posterior sinuation distinctly marked ; the 

 sides convex, leaving a broad and rounded culmen. 



KESTREL. 



Falco Tinnunculus, Linn. 

 PLATES XVIL and XVII •. 



Falco Tinnunculus, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 1. p. 41. t. 98 Gmel. Syst. 1. 



p. 278. \Q.—Rau, Syn. PI. 16. 16 — Will. p. 50. t. 5 — Meyer, Tasschenb. 



1. p. 62 — Shaio''s Zool. 7- 179 — Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 50. No. 13. 

 Falco Tinnunculus alaudarius, Gmel. p. 279. 

 Accipiter alaudarius, Briss. 1. p. 379. 22. 

 La Cresserelle, Buff. Ois. v. 1. p. 379 — Id. PL Enl. 401. old-male, and 471, 



the young of the year. 

 Faucon CressereUe, Temm. Man. d'Omith. 1. p. 29. 

 Turm-falke, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 37- 

 Kestrel, Stannel, Windhover, Will. (Ang.) p. 84. t. 5. 

 Kestrel, Br. Zool. 1. No. 60 — lb. fol. p. 68. t. A — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 226. N. 



— Lath. Syn. 1. p. 94. 79 — Id. Supp. p. 25 Leu-ill's Br. Birds, 1. t. 19. 



Mand. F.—Mo7it. Ornith. Diet — Wale. Syn. 1. 1. 19 Pull. Cat. Dorset. 



p. 3 — Loiv's Fau. Oread, p. 37 — Don, Br. Birds, 3. t. 51 Shaw's Zool. 



V. 7. p. 179 — Haye's Br. Birds, t. 4.— Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 38. and 



40. Mand. F. 



Provincial — Kastril, Stonegall, Windhover. 

 This well-known species is distinguished, not only by the 

 symmetry of its form and its elegant plumage, but by the 



