HINGTAIL, AND WINTER FALCON. ':,6ij 



Br. Zool. i. li° ^g.—Eiiw. iii. \o^.— Latham, i. N'" 75, 75 A, and N' 34, is a ic6. Ringtajl. 



ruft-colored variety. 

 Fako Pygargus, F. Hudfonius, Lin, SyJ}. iiZ.—Mulhr, N° 72.— Bl. Mus. 



T^ With a duflcy bill and yellow cere : a white line over each eye : 

 head, upper part of the neck, and back, dulky brown : coverts 

 and primaries of the fame color ; the inner fides of the lafl white : 

 breaft, belly, and thighs, whitifh, marked with ferruginous fpots : 

 vent and rump white, encircling the root of the tail : the middle 

 feathers of the tail dulky ; the next of a bluilh afli-color ; the out- 

 moft white, all marked tranfverfely with orange bars : iegs long, and 

 very flender. 



This fpecies is fuperior in fize to the Britijh Ringtail ; but having Size. 



moft of the charafters of that bird, we doubt not but that it is the 

 fame. Like the European kind, flcims along the ground in fearch of 

 prey, which is Mice, Frogs, and fmall birds. Builds its neft indif- 

 ferently on the ground, or on the lower parts of trees. It is fubjefl 

 to vary to a deep ruft-color; plain, except on the rump and tail. 



Inhabits Hudjon's Bay. Weight, in Hudfon's Bay, feventeen ounces Size and Place. 

 and a half. Length twenty-one inches. Extent three feet feven. Is 

 very common in the open and temperate parts of Ruffia and Sibiria ; 

 and extends as far as lake Baikal*. It is not found far in the north of 

 Europe. Linnatu omits it among the birds of his country ; but Mr. 

 Brunnkk defcribes one, which had been fliot in lat. 58, on the little 

 ifland of Chrijlianfoe !• 



TT With a black bill ; yellow cere : head of a deep brown : back 107. Winter.; 



the fame, tinged with ruft : hind part of the neck ftreaked with 

 white : the coverts of ^he wings dulky, edged with dull white ; thofe 

 on the ridge with orange -, ends of the primaries dufky ; the other 

 parts barred with brown and white : breaft and belly white, marked 

 with heart-lhaped fpots : thighs fulphur-colored, fpeckled with 



* Dr. Pallas. f I" tl»e5a/f/V, alittlc north-eaftof5er»WOT. 



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