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ELEMENTS OF OENITHOLOGT. 



more powerful group of Birds of Prey than that last mentioned. 

 There are five-and-twenty species of the genus Falco. The 

 Peregrine Palcon is the Palcon of Falconry, but our Hobby and 

 our Merlin both belong to the same genus, as well as that rare 



Fig. 184. 



Tlie Greenland Falcon {Falco candicans). 



visitant to our shores, the Greenland Palcon {Falco candicans). 

 The Kestrel (Falco tinnuneulus) is a stiU more familiar Bird than 

 the Sparrow-hawk, from its habit of poising itself in the air, 

 and remaining apparently in one place whilst rapidly moving 



