.Class H. 



HOBBY. 



4gi7 



at the end for an inch with a bar of black, but 

 .the very tips quite pale. This he conjectures 

 .to be a male kestrel in the first years plum- 

 age, and to be Eperv'ier des Alouettes of Bris- 

 £Qn* Ed. 



; " The kestrel is common on the continent, as 

 :well as in England. We have seen it represent- 

 ed both in Chinese drawings, and among those 

 from India. It is observed in the south oi Spain 

 throughout the year." J. L. 



Falco Subbuteo. F. cera pedibus- 

 que flavis, dorso fusco, nucha 

 alba, abdomine pallido macu- 

 lis oblongis fuscis, crisso fe- 

 moribusque rufis Lath Ind. 

 orn. 47. id. Syn. i 103. id. 

 Sup. i. 28. 

 ,Le Hobreau. Belon av. 118. 

 Gesnerav. To.fcem. 

 Hobbia Turneri. 

 -JEsalon. Aldr. av. i. 187. 

 ,The Hobby. Wil. orn. 83. 



Le Hobreau, Dendro-falco. 22. Hobby. 



Brissonav 1.375. Hist. d'ois. 



i. 277. Pl.Enl. 431. 432. 

 Ttaii syn. av. 15. 

 Falco Subbuteo. Gm. Lin. 



283. ^ - ^ 



Faun. Suec. sp. 5Q. 



Barletta. Lurenzi av. 45. " -' 



Stein-Falck. Frisck. i. 86. 

 Laerke-Falk. Brunnich 10, 11. 

 Br. Zool. 69 plate A. 9. 



Arct. Zool. i. 262. . ; 



XHIS bird was also used in the humbler kind 

 of falconry ; particularly in what was called dar- 

 ing of larks : the hawk was cast off; the larks 

 aware of their most inveterate enemy, are fixed 

 to the ground through fear, which makes them 



* Brisson orn. i. p. 379. 22. 



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