202 FALCON. 



131— GREY-WINGED KESTRIL. 



LENGTH 12 in. Bill yellow, tip dusky ; cere and eyelids 

 yellow and bristly ; nostrils round ; irides dark brown ; head and 

 neck behind plain grey ; chin white ; general colour of the body 

 chestnut brown, paler beneath, especially towards the belly, on 

 which, as well as the sides, are a few small, oblong, dusky spots, 

 one on each feather towards the shaft ; upper wing coverts, over the 

 second quills, gi'ey like the head ; bastard wing, and coverts over 

 the prime quills, blackish ; under wing coverts white, those next the 

 body brown at the ends ; greater quills black, inner edges white, 

 tlie second longest ; the second quills dusky grey, not barred ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts white; tail rounded, grey, near the tip a broad 

 bar of black, but the tip is white ; length of it near six inches, tlie 

 wings, when closed, reach to within half an inch of the end ; legs 

 naked, yellow ; claws black. 



This is found at Calcutta the whole year, and builds on trees ; 

 is one of the small Hawks which frequent the villages, and by the 

 natives of Hindustan called Tormooty. Dr. Buchanan, from whose 

 notes the above is copied, seems to think it allied to the Hen-Harrier, 

 but it appears equally to approach to the male of the Kestril, varying 

 from it chiefly in the large, longitudinal grey patch on the win 

 for in the tail it exactly corresponds. 



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