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merous genus, the present species is twice particu- 

 larized in the Gmelinian edition of the Systema 

 Naturae, viz. first under the title of Falco cegyptius, 

 and again under that of F. Forskahlii. 



KESTRIL. 



Falco Tinunculus. F. ferrugineus nigro maculatus, capite cau- 



daque (maris) cards, hac fascia subterminali nigra. 

 Ferruginous Hawk spotted with black, the head and tail (of the 



male) grey, the latter marked by a subterminal black bar. 

 Falco Tinunculus. F. cera pedibusque Jiavis, dorso rufo punctis 



nigris, pectore striis fuscis cauda rotundata. Lin, Syst. Nat. 

 The Kestril, Stannel, Windhover. Will. orn. p. 84. Penn. 



Brit. Zool. edit. fol. p. 68. pi. A. Hayes Brit. Birds, pi. 4. 



By far the most elegant of the smaller British 

 Hawks : general length of the male about fourteen 

 inches, and the breadth about two feet three inches : 

 colour of the back and wing-coverts bright ferru- 

 ginous, spotted with black : the (juill-feathers black 

 with pale edges; the head blueish grey with small 

 longitudinal black streaks; and the tail blue-grey 

 with a broad black bar near the tip, which is white : 

 the under parts of the bird are pale or yellow- 

 ferruginous, with longitudinal black streaks: the 

 bill is blue ; the cere and legs yellow. The female 

 is much larger than the male: the colour of the 

 back and wings less bright, and the spots disposed 

 into transverse bars ; the head pale ferruginous, 

 streaked with black, and the tail of similar colour, 

 marked by numerous black bars, that at the tip 



