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PLacs, 
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DWARF 
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DeEscRIPTION. 
Manners. 
AOL CLOON. 
from thence to the vent, dufky white, croffed with light brown bands: 
the bill is black: cere and legs fine red: irides yellow. ‘The female 
as ufual one-third bigger than the male. 
Thefe are found only in the interior parts of the Cape of Good 
Hope, on the borders of the river Swarte-kop and Sondag, alfo about 
Karow, Camdeboo, and other parts; but not near the Cape itfelf: fup- 
pofed to lay about four white eggs, as big as thofe of our Sparrow- 
hawk; it hatches in September. 
Le Minule, Lewvaill. Or. i. p. 140. N° 34. 
HIS isa fmall bird of prey, being even lefs than the Merlin; it 
has the fame proportion as the Sparrow-hawk, but ona lefs fcale: 
the bill is black: cere and legs yellow: irides yellow orange: all the 
upper parts of the body, wings, and tail are brown; the under parts 
white, with a few fmall brown fpots on the throat; but the breaft 
marked with larger, which increafe in fize as they approach down- 
wards, becoming at laft bars acrofs the belly and thighs: the quills 
reach a {mall way beyond the bafe of the tail, which is even at the 
end, the greater ones banded with white on the inner webs; the 
fecondaries much the fame, with broader: under wing coverts rufous 
fpotted with white: the tail feathers are brown, with obfolete darker 
bands, but the bands are whitifh on the inner webs. 
This is a bold fpecies, generally preying on imaller birds, but in 
defect of thefe on Gra/shoppers, &c. drives the Shrike totally away 
from their quarters, and even many birds of prey larger than them- 
felves, even Buzzards and Kites: male and female moft times toge- 
ther; build on trees, the neft of flexible twigs intermixed with mofs 
and leaves without, and wool and feathers’ within, and lay five eggs, 
fpotted with brown near the ends: the female almoft twice the fize’ 
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