Class II. ASH-COLORED FALCON. ^ 243 



grey; the six middle feathers were almost 

 wholly grey, and the markings very obscure be-r 

 neath. Ed. ^ 



Ash-colored Falcon. Mont.or?i. Falco hyemalis. Gm. Lin. ^9- AsH- 

 dict. id. Lin. Tr. ix. 188. 274. Palcon'! 



SSjl^. Montagu adds to the list of British 

 falcons, a species shot in Wiltshire, which re- 

 sembles the hen harrier in many respects, but 

 differs in the want of the wreath of short 

 feathers round the head, and in the greater re- 

 lative length of wing and tail. Another speci- 

 men, a male, was killed in Devonshire in 1 803. 

 The weight of this was nine ounces and three Descrip- 

 quarters ; its length eighteen inches ; its extent 

 three feet eight inches and a half Bill black, 

 base and cere greenish ; irides bright yellow ; 

 crown of the head, cheeks, throat, under part of 

 the neck and upper breast, dark ash-color: 

 upper part of the neck, back and scapulars 

 cinereous brown ; greater covers the same ; the 

 eight prime quils dusky black; secondary quils 

 cinereous brown above, pale beneath, with three 

 remarkable dusky bars across them, nearly in 

 parallel lines, each half an inch in breadth, one 

 only of which is to be seen on the upper side 

 of the wing, on the under part two of these 



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