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Var. A. Le Fauconde Montague cendree, Bt-if. orn. 1. p. 355. 



ASH-COLOUR- Falco montanus fecundus Aldrovandi, Will. orn. t. 9. 



ED MOUNTAIN 



_, T 1 HIS is in length one foot nine inches. The bill is black : 



Description. X . . 



iris yellow; general colour cinereous j paleft on 'the wing- 



coverts : beneath white as fnow : legs luteous. 



yg, ! Falco tinnunculus, Lin, Syft. p. 127. N° 17. 



•4- KESTRIL . — —- Scop. Ann. i. p. 16. 



*° -La. Crefferelle, Brif. orn. i. p. 393. N° 27. 



. Buf. oif. i. p. 280. t. 18. — PI. enl, 401, 47!. 



Tinnunculus, feu Cenchris, Raii Syn. p. 16. N° 16. 

 Rothe-falck, & Rothel-geyer, Frijch. t. 84, 85. 

 Keftrel, Stanne!, or Windhover, Will. orn. p. 84. t. 5, 

 Keftrel, Br. Zool. N° 60. 



Br, Muf. Lev, Muf. 



Description. HpHE male and female differ much in this fpecies : the firft 

 Male. weighs fix ounces and a half. The cere is yellow : irides 



dark-coloured : crown of the head, and the tail, of a fine light 

 grey ; the lower end of the laft marked with a broad black bar : 

 the back and wing-coverts are of a rufous brick-colour, fpotted 

 with black ; beneath of a pale ferruginous colour, fpotted with 

 black alfo : thighs and vent plain. 

 Female. The female weighs eleven ounces. Colour of the back and 



wings more pale and duiky than in the male, croffed with nume- 

 rous tranfverfe lines of black : the head is pale red brown, 

 {freaked with black : tail the fame, croffed with numerous black 

 bars ; near the end it has the fame black bar as in the male ■, 



the end of both is very pale at the tip. 



This, 



