46 
So. 
ORANGE- 
LEGGED 
HOBBY. 
DEscriprion. 
ME GGA TE INS ON MN 
mountainous and rocky fituations; it refides in the fame place the 
whole year: feeds on fmall quadrupeds, lizards, and infects ; makes 
its neft among the fharp rocks, unfheltered, compofed of dry twigs 
and grafs carelefly put together ; lays commonly fix, feven, and even 
eight eggs, intirely of a deep rufous, like its own plumage; is a 
fierce and daring bird, fetting up a noife like cri-cri, many times 
repeated, on the fight of any perfon, efpecially during the time of 
incubation, or when it has young ones. 
Falco Subbuteo, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 47. 114. Var.? 
Falco rufipes, der rothfuffige Falke, Allg. Ueb. d. Vog. ii. Zufafs. S. 677. 122.— 
Befek. Vog. Kurl. §. 19. 27.—Tafi 3 GF 4.—Pl. Enlum. 431. 
BESEKE here mentions two hawks, about the fize of a Kefril, 
* fhot together late in the fpring. The one fuppofed to be the 
male wholly black, but the great wing feathers and under parts of 
the body blackifh lead colour: thighs, vent, and under tail coverts 
fine red brown: eyelids, the bare {pace round them, the cere and 
legs, of a brick red: bill/half yellow, half blueifh. 
‘The one fuppofed to be the female had many things in common 
with the other, but was larger: head and neck plain whitifh yellow, 
or fox colour: eyes placed ih a patch of brown: throat as far as the 
breaft whitifh yellow, as are the thigh coverts, vent, and under the 
tail: the fhoulders duller fox-coloured yellow, waved with black; 
upper part of the body‘pale brown, with dull afh-coloured and black 
waves: tail croffed with nine fmall black bands. 
This feems to approach very ‘nearly to a fingular variety of the 
Hebby, figured in the P/. Enluminées, if not the fame bird. 
