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Under wing-coverts are brown, marked with round white fpots : 

 tail five inches long, crofled with alternate bars of dufky and 

 reddifh clay-colour, generally from thirteen to fifteen in number.; 

 but in one fpecimen, Mr. Pennant obferves there were only 

 eight : the breaft and belly yellowifh white, with oblong fpots 

 pointing downwards : the wings reach to within an inch and half 

 of the end of the tail : the legs are yellow : claws black. 



This defcription from the Britijh Zoology ; which informs us Manners. 

 that the fpecies does not breed with us, but migrates here in 

 Oftober, coming into England about the fame time that the Hobby 

 difappears. This was anciently ufed in falconry, and though 

 inferior in fize, was not fo in point of fpirit, to any of the larger 

 fpecies* 



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AS the following appears a variety of the former, 1 think Var. A. 

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worth while to defcnbe it as fuch, as I cannot venture to M< 



place it as a diftin6t fpecies. 



The length nine inches. The bill blue; tip black; imme- Description. 

 diately over the bill the feathers are very pale : the forehead is 

 afh-colour, extending with the fame colour in a ftreak over each 

 eye: crown of the head reddifh chefnut: on the fide of the head, 

 under each eye, is a broad fpace of white, nearly of a triangu- 

 lar figure ; this is bordered with dufky black : at the place of 

 the ears is a patch of dufky black : the feathers on the back are 

 of a reddifh chefnut, tranfverfely ftriated with black : wing-co- 

 verts the fame : both prime and fecondary quills dufky, inclin- 

 ing to black ; the laft edged with white : the under parts of the 



P 2 bird 



