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should be killed first, the male does not testify so much attachment, 

 for retiring to the top of some distant tree, not easily approached, he 

 does not cease to sing, but becomes so wary, as to fly away from 

 that neighbourhood on the least alarm. The female is said to make 

 her nest between the forks of trees, or in bushy groves, and lays four 

 round white eggs. This bird preys on partridges, hares, quails, 

 rats, &c. and for its size is a very destructive species. 



103.— RUFOUS-EARED FALCON. 



SIZE uncertain ; bill black ; irides, cere, and legs yellow ; 

 head, and part of the neck, butF-white, the feathers streaked down 

 the shafts with dusky ; eye in a deep brown patch, on the ears a 

 larger one of pale rufous; general colour of the plumage deep 

 brovvn, quills deeper ; on the inner wing coverts a whitish patch ; 

 belly, thighs, and vent, deep rufous ; tail plain greenish ash, 

 rounded ; the wings reach nearly to the end of it. 



Inhabits Bengal ; figured among the drawings of Sir John 

 Anstrutherj Bart. 



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