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a trifle forked in fhape, and the feathers fringed at the ends with white ; 
the under part of it white: fides of the head, and all beneath white : 
the feathers of the thighs are filky and delicate, and reach almoft 
to the toes: the eye is fituated in a bed of blackifh, which: continues 
betwixt it and the noftrils: irides orange: bill black: legs fhort 
and yellow: the wing coverts are wholly black; but. the quills are 
the fame colour with the back. j 
“The female chiefly differs in being bigger, and the colour of the 
plumage leis diftiné. The young birds have fuch parts as are 
white in the adult inclined to rufous, efpecially on the back feathers, 
with a large portion of rufous in- the middle of the breaft, and the 
top of the Tae 
Thefe birds build between the forks of trees, lining the neft 
with mofs and feathers, and lay four or five white eggs. 
This fpecies is found throughout all the 4frican coaft, from Duyven- 
Hoek to. Caffraria, and in the interior in Camdeboo, and the borders. 
of Swarte-Kop and Sondag; is always perched on high bufhes, where 
it may be feen afar off by its pure white under fide. Its cry is, 
piercing, and it repeats it often, efpecially in flying. It feems to 
feed principally on infects, fuch as grafhoppers and mantes; but Mr. 
Levaillant has not feen it kill fmall birds, however, it attacks crows,. 
kites, and fhrikes, and drives them ae its haunts. It is a wild 
bird, and difficult to be fhot. It is obferved to fmell of mufk, which: 
its fkin retains, even after prepared for the cabinet. It is faid alfo. 
to have been killed in Barbary, as alfo in India. 
Mr. Levaillant thinks this has fome affinity with the Swallow-tailed’ 
Falcon, which makes its chief food infects; 
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