FALCOV, 123^ 



kno^vn by the name of Kober and Deibnitschock ; has much flie 

 manners of the Kestril, but extends farther east than that bird, or 

 the Hobby, though less common tlian eitlier. 



M. Pallas in his MS. list calls it Dusky Windhover. 



60 —PERMIAN FALCON. 



Falco vespertinoides, Ind, Orn. i. p. 46. Gm. Lin. i, 282. Falek. It. iii. 329. 

 Daud. ii. 124. 



THE short description which we can collect of this bird fiom 

 Falck, informs us, that it is half the size of the last ; and weighs 

 no more than two ounces and one dram ; cere and evelids vellow : 

 neck, breast, and belly brownish, spotted with white ; thighs black. 



Inhabits Russia, especially in the province of Permia — found 

 also in Siberia, about Iset and Baschiria. M. Daudin places it as a 

 variety of the Ingrian, or last species. 



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