1*26 FALCOX. 



A. — Accipiter alaiidarius, Bm. i. 379. Id. 8\o. IIO. Gm. Lin. i. 279. Klein. Av. 



p. 49. Id. Ov. t. 6. f. 6 

 Lark Hawk, Gen. Syn. i. A. Id. Sup. ii. p. 44. C. 



A bird, which I conjecture to be the same as that of the authors 

 last quoted, was shot in Surrey— it was 14in. long. Bill pale, tip black ; 

 cere and legs yellow ; head grey, streaked with black ; beneath the 

 eye a sort of black whisker ; chin and vent white ; back rufous brick 

 colour, each feather marked with black at the tip ; rump pale ash ; 

 beneath the body rufous white, streaked with black ; wing coverts 

 crossed with black bars ; quills dusky, barred within with reddish 

 white ; tail pale rufous ash, barred on each side the shafts with black, 

 and crossed near the end with a bar of black, an inch in breadth. 



I consider this as a young male in incomplete plumage, and 

 very nearly approaches to the description in Brisson alluded to above. 



B.— Tinnunculus pennis griseis, S. G. Ginel. It. i. p. 49. t. 10. 

 Grey Kestril, Gen. Syn. i, p. 95, 



This is mentioned as being of a grey colour, with the shafts of 

 the feathers black : it is also said to have black legs, and the under 

 part of the tail barred with black. M. Daudin observes, that this 

 variety is sometimes met with in France, and that it has been killed 

 many times near Beauvais. He also mentions a Kestril with dusky 

 cheeks, found in the same places, but supposes it a mere variety from 

 age. 



