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6 KESTRIL, AND S P^A R R O W. 



M. Kestril, Br.Zool. i. N*6o. — Latham, \,gj^. 



Falco Tinnunculus, Kirko-Falk, Faun. Suec. N'" 6i.— iWa//irr, N" 65. 

 La Crefferelle, De Buffon, i. 280. pi. xviii.— P/. Enl. 401, 471. 



Male, p With the crown and tail of a fine light grey, the laft 

 marked with a black bar near the end : back and wings 

 of a purpliHi red^ fpotted with black. Female. Head reddifh 5 crown 

 ftreaked with black: back, tail, and coverts of wings, dull ruft-co- 

 lor, barred with black : legs yellow. Weight o( Male fix ounces 

 and a half : o{ Female tltYtn. 

 piACE. ' Frequent in the deferts of 'Tartary and Sihiria, in the open coun- 

 tries, where fmall trees are found for it to breed in. Migrates into 

 Sisjeden, at the time in which the White Wagtail returns, and the Saf- 

 fron, Snowdrop, and buPbous Violet, blollbm. Each of thefe birds 

 quit the country about the fame day, in September *. Not found 

 farther north ? 



N. Sparrow Hawk, J?r. Zco/.i.N" 62. — La/iam, i. gg- 



Sparfhok, Faun. Suec. N* 68. — Mul/er, N" 71.— J/rm; 235. 

 L'Epervier, De Buffon, i. 225. pi. xi.—Pl. Enl. 412, 467. 



"C^ With head, back, and coverts of wings and tail, (in feme) 

 of a deep bluifh grey ; in others, of a deep brown, edged with 

 ruft-color : breaft and belly of a whitifh yellow, with waved bars 

 of deep brown or dull orange : tail cinereous, with five broad 

 black bars ; the tips white. 



Weight of the male five ounces : female nine. 

 "Mthct. Found as high as Sondmor, and in the Feroe iflands, in the fouth of 



Rujfia ; but norie in Sibiria. 



* Calendar cf Flora, and Migr. av. \nJmeen. Acad, v. 397. 382.«^— Is found as 

 far fouth as as the Htlj Land, HaJJil^uiJi, hin, 291. 



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