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SON NINDs 
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DESCRIPTION. 
PLACE. 
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BLACK-EYED 
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DESCRIPTION, 
PLaAcs. 
BAS) Ge Or N,.- 
lias three young ata time: fuppofed to feed on fmall birds without 
diftinétion, but nourifhes the young with grafshoppers ; has.a piercing _ 
note like Cri, eri, eften repeated. The eges are white, marked with. 
rufous fpots. 
New fpecies of Hawk, Scunin. Trav. (Engl. ed.) ii. p. 52. 
ENGTH eleven inches and an’ half: bill very hooked, full an 
inch long: cere and legs yellow: irides orange: the tail nearly 
even, but the outer feathers rather longeft, though not perceivably 
forked unlefs expanded: the length of it four inches eight lines, and 
the wings when clofed reach eight lines beyond it: the firft quill: 
feather ferrated outwardly *: lees covered with feathers on the fore 
part almoft to the toes: the forehead and under parts are white ; 
above the eye and anterior angle of it, covered with flender black 
feathers: body, head, and upper wing coverts afh coloured, tipped” 
with grey, the fhafts black: the two middle tail feathers white, | 
mingled with afh colour: the reft white within, and light grey with- 
out. 
Inhabits Egypt, where it is commonly: feen fufpended in the air 
over the rice fields, like the Kefril, and is fometirmmes feen to perch . 
on date trees, but never obferved on the ground. 
HIS {fpecies is about thirty-four or thirty-five inches in length : 
the bill-is black; pale about: the noftrils: legs’ pale red: the 
head:and neck are afh colour: the eye placed in ‘a triangular rufous 
patch, but immediately round the eye black: the back, wings, and 
tail, which laft is rather Jong, are of a dufky brown: round the lower 
parts of the neck, and all eect: ferruginous, croffed with 1 numerous | 
fine lines of a blueifh ath colour. C 
Inhabits New Holland. ‘ td . 
® This circumftance, added to the fhins being feathered before, and the black fea- ~ 
thers half round the eye, inclines us to think the bird allied tothe Ow/ Genus. 
