60 FALCONIDZ. 
rally, to Spain and Italy. Numbers of those bred in 
Kurope are said to pass over in autumn to the north of 
Africa. It is found in Corfu, and was seen by W. Thomp- 
son, Esq. about forty-five miles from Zante; it is found 
also in Sicily and Malta. Mr. Strickland observed it at 
Smyrna in winter; and it has been found at Trebizond 
and at Erzeroom. In North Africa it has been taken at 
Tangiers and Algiers; it has been found in Egypt and 
Nubia. It inhabits Central Africa, according to M. Tem- 
minck; and the Zoological Society have received speci- 
mens from the Cape of Good Hope, which were sent by 
Captain Spiller. 
The range of the Kestrel im the East is also very ex- 
tensive. Mr. Selby mentions having received specimens 
from India, and I have seen others from the banks of the 
Ganges. Colonel Sykes includes it among the birds of the 
Dukhun. Figures of it occur in drawings from China ; it 
is known to inhabit Japan; and Dr. Horsfield includes it 
in his catalogue of the birds of Java. 
The whole length of the Kestrel is from thirteen to fif- 
teen inches, depending on the sex. The male, the upper 
figure in the illustration, has the beak blue, pale towards 
the base ; the cere and orbits or eyelids yellow, the irides 
dark brown; the top of the head, the cheeks, and nape 
of the neck, ash grey, with dusky longitudinal streaks ; 
the back, tertials, and wing-coverts, reddish fawn colour, 
with small black triangular spots dispersed over them, one 
occupying the point of each feather; the primaries and 
secondaries blackish grey, with lighter-coloured edges ; the 
tail-feathers ash grey, with a broad black band near the 
end, each feather tipped with white ; the breast and belly 
pale rufous fawn colour, with dark longitudinal streaks on 
the former, and dark spots on the latter; the thighs and 
