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A L c o rr. 



ip8 = , 

 ARABIAN 

 . KITE. 



IJescriptiom. 



IPX-ASEo _ 



Faico, Eatm. Arab. p. I . . 



^MALLER than our Kite:, length eighteen tnches,. Bilt 

 and cere yellow : the feathers of the head narrow, and of a ru- 

 fous brown, dafiied with black down the fhafts : back, and w^ing, 

 coverts cinereous, with brown fhafts: quills brown v/ithout,. 

 within grey,, fafciated with brown j the ends black: the tail the 

 length of the body, and forked, the wing, when clofed, not reach- 

 ing to the end of it; the feathers cinereous, banded with brown %- 

 legs^ yellow ; half of the fhins covered with feathers t claws-. 

 black. 



This i& faid to be frequent in Egypt m the fummer, and thcr 

 Arabic minz Hadddi. 



log. 

 StREAKED F. 



D'e'scrxption. 



Pl'A C E i 

 1 10. 



NOTCHED F. . 



Description, 



Be'v.Mu/.: 



I.ZE of a Rook : length fifteen inches and' a half Bill 

 black; cere yellow: head and neck white, each feather 

 marked with a black ftreak down the fhaft ; through the eye a 

 black ftreak : back and wing coverts black, fpotted with white : 

 quills plain black : tail black, croiTed with a confpicuous white, 

 bar about the middle, and a few fpots of the fame on the inaer^ 

 webs of fome of the outer feathers : the under partSiof the bodp 

 white: legs yellow : claws black,. 



Inhabits. C^_)W«^. 



LENGTH fourteen-incHes, Bill brown; the under mandible - 

 yellow, the upper one furnifhed with a double notch about 

 the iniddle: the plumage on the upper parts blueifh black:-. 



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