112 BLACK-WINGED KITE. 



with a reddish grey down; when they leave the nest 

 they have the head, nape, and upper parts of the body 

 of a reddish tint; the chest ferruginous red, and the 

 rest of inferior parts white, very slightly "watered" 

 with a reddish tint. (Degland.) 



There are four specimens in the Norwich Museum. 



I have now brought to a close the description of 

 the important and interesting family of the Falconidce. 

 I have endeavoured to make the list as correct as the 

 present state of ornithology will permit; and I have 

 spared no time or labour in the task. There are some 

 species admitted whose claims may be doubted, and 

 others omitted which a more advanced knowledge of 

 the birds inhabiting or appearing along the boundary 

 line may bring into the European Fauna. Of this class 

 there are three more particularly which may be men- 

 tioned here — Falco peregrinoides, F. vocifer, and F. 

 rupicolus, to the first and last of which my attention 

 has been kindly drawn by Mr. Gurney, of whose great 

 practical knowledge of the family I have had such fre- 

 quent cause to avail myself in the previous pages. 



F. vocifer has been admitted by Schlegel into the 

 European list on the strength of some specimens said 

 to have been killed in Greece; but Count Miihle, our 

 best historian of Grecian ornithology, makes no mention 

 of its appearance there, and I think it will be admitted 

 that the evidence is too slight. The geographical dis- 

 tribution of birds is a most interesting subject, and it 

 requires great care and research to avoid that error 

 which is so easily created by the too often doubtfully- 

 assigned localities of birds in museums. 



