Class IL 



HOBBY. 



247 



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 Epervier des Alouettes of Bris- 

 son* 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 of Spain 

 throughout the year." J. L. 



Falco Subbuteo. F. cera pedibus- 

 que flavis, dorso fusco, nucha 

 alba, abdomine pallido macu- 

 Iis oblongis fuscis, crisso fe- 

 moribusque runs Lath. Ind. 

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

 Sup. i. 28. 



Le Hobreau. Belon av. 1}8. 



Gesner av. Ib.fcem. 



Hobbia Turneri. 



iEsalon. Aldr. av. i. 187- 



The Hobby. Wil. orn. 83. 



Le Hobreau, Dendro-falco. 22. Hobby. 



Brissonav . 1. 37 5. Hist, d'ois. 



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

 Haii syn. av. 15. 

 Falco Subbuteo. Gm. Lin. 



283. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 5Q. 

 Earletta. Lorenzi av. 45. 

 Stein-Falck. Frisch. 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. 



