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48. 
KESTRIL. 
Var.C. 
DescrIPTION. 
48. 
KESTRIL. 
Var. D. 
DEscRIPTION. 
By ANVIL Cav ONE 
Epervier des alouettes, Bri, Orz. i. p. 359. 22? 
OME few years fince, I received the following bird, which was 
fhot in Surrey: it was fourteen inches long: the bill pale, with a 
black tip: ‘cere and legs yellow: the forehead over the noftrils 
white: head grey, ftreaked with black; under the eye a black mark 
like a whifker: back rufous brick-colour; at the tip of each feather 
a fpot of black: rump pale afh: all the under parts of the body pale 
rufous white, ftreaked with black down the fhafts: thighs the fame, 
with here and there a fpot of black: chin and vent nearly white: 
wing coverts croffed with black bars: quills dufky; within barred 
with reddifh white: tail pale rufous afh-colour, barred on each fide 
the fhafts with black ; thofe on the inner webs moft complete, and 
all the feathers marked at the ends for an inch, with a bar of black, 
but the very tips quite pale. This I judge may prove merely the 
bird alluded to above, noticed by Briffon; and probably no other than 
a young male of the Ke/fril/, in the firft year’s plumage. 
Falco brunneus, der Braunrothe Falke, Allg. U. d. Vog. 1.3. Zufafs. S, 679. 127. 
—Taf. 2. f. 1. Mannch.—f. 3. Funges. 
HIS in plumage feems not unlike the Kefril, but as big as the 
Hooded Crow, being fourteen inches long, and two feet broad: 
the bill is blue; the cere yellow: the ground colour of the plumage 
is a fort of rufty yellow, crofled with brown bars, as in the Kefril: the 
under parts paler, with perpendicular /rriz : tail croffed with lines of _ 
black, and deeply tipped with black at the end. 
The young bird is not greatly different, but the crofs ftreaks of 
blackifh are edged with white on the upper parts, the under not un- 
like’ the firft; but the end of the tail is tipped with black ina lefs de- 
ree. 
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