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dark hazel, and not yellow ; and thinks it more probable, that this 

 and Austrian Kite, or following, are varieties of each other. 



A.— Falco austriacus, Jiid. Orn. i. 21, Gm. Lin. i. 262, Paud. ii, 149. E. Beckst. 



Dents, ii. 261. Shaio's Zool. vii. 106. 

 B ran ner C ever, Brauner Milon, Kram. 327, 6, 

 Austrian Kite, Gen. Spi, i. 62, 



Size of our kite ; bill yellow, tip black ; cere and angles of 

 the mouth yellow ; irides black ; palate blue ; forehead and throat 

 whitish, spotted with bro^vn ; head, neck, back, breast, and wings, 

 chestnut ; sliafts of the feathers black ; belly and rump testaceous 

 brown, obscurely spotted with brown; prime quills blackish; se- 

 condaries tipped Avith white ; tail very little forked, crossed with 

 several blackish bands ; tips of the feathers white ; legs yellow, fea- 

 thered to the middle ; claws black. 



Inhabits Austria ; lives chiefly in woods, and feeds on birds, 

 mice, and other small quadrupeds. Is probably a variety of the 

 black species, if not of the common kite ; said to lay three or four 

 yellowish-white eggs, thickly spotted with brown. 



