2S 



FALCON. 



90. 

 +- HOBBY. 



cliers : the plumage on the upper parts brown, each feather mar- 

 gined with ferruginous: behind the neck a crefcent of white: 

 chin and fore pare of the neck rufous; near the end of each feather 

 a bar of black : the under parts of the body white ; lower belly 

 and thighs barred rufous and white. The tail was wanting. This 

 is perhaps the bird that Buffon has defcribed*; but in the PL 

 Enl, \i to which he refers, the bill is not larger than common. 



Hobby, Gen. Syn. i. p. 203. N° 90. — ArB. Zoo/, ii. p. Z27. O. 

 Faico fubbuteo, Brun. N° 10, 11. — Muller, N°63. 



npHIS bird feems not to venture fo far north as many others : 

 is not met with in any part of Sweden, except the moft 

 yo«//5'fr« provinces J : migrates /o«/^ in autumn-, winters s^bout 

 Woronefch and^ JJlrachan 1| : is moft common in the open country,^ 

 particularly in the deferts of Tartary and Sibiria, whenever fmall 

 trees are at hand in which it may breed §. We believe this to be 

 the moft rapid in flight of all the Hawks. Larks will not truft 

 to their wings while the Hobby is in fightj and we remember once 

 to have feen a Swallow purfued and overtaken, while on the wingj, 

 by this bird^ 



ORANGE- 

 BREASTED 

 HOBBY. 



Oraflge-brealled Hobby, Gen. Syn. i, p. loj. N" gi. 



T HAVE met with two of thefe birds, which I fufpeft to be 



males; the one in length only nine inches, the other fcarcely 



ttn : in the firft, the bars on the back were not very confpicuous : 



* Vol. I. p. 237. t 464. 



J: Scarcely beyond the province of Schonen, 

 il Dec. Rujliurp. 14Z. 



Jrff. ZooL 

 § Mr. Pennant. 



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