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^he Windhover Cock, 



Numb. V. 



' I 'HIS Bird weighed ten Ounces: Its length, from the point of the 

 •^ Beak to the end of the Tail, was fourteen Inches and a quarter: 

 Its breadth, or diftance between the Wings, extended two Foot and a 

 half; the Beak fliort, prominent, hooked, and fharp pointed: The 

 Bafe of the upper Chap covered with a Skin or Membrane, in which 

 are the Noftrils, the middle part of the Beak next the Sear is white, the 

 reft of a dark blew : Where it begins to bend it hath a Tooth or Angle, 

 which is received in a Dent or Cavity in the lower Chap. The Noftrils 

 are round; the Tongue cleft; the Eye-lids yellow; the Eyes defended 

 by prominent Rows ; it hath a wide Mouth, and the Palate blew. 



The Head is great ; the Crown flat, inclining to an Afh Colour ; 

 the Back, Shoulders and covert Feathers of the Wings ferrugineous, 

 marked with dark Spots; the Rump cinereous; the Breaft and Belly 

 pale ferrugineous, varied with dark Lines drawn downwards; the lower 

 Belly is fpotted with large Spots of a dusky Colour. 



The Flag-Feathers of the Wings were in number twenty four, the 

 exterior of which were black, their exterior Edges white, thofe next 

 the Body reddifh, with a Spot at the End of each; the under fide of the 

 Wing white, with dusky Spots: The Train was made up of twelve 

 Feathers, the outmoft Tips white, then fucceeds a black Bar or Ring 

 of an Inch broad, the reft of the Feathers being of a rufty Afh Colour. 

 The Legs and Feet of a lovely yellow, and the Talons black. It 

 had a Gall: In the Stomach was found Beetles ^nd Fur of Mice-, Kojirels 

 are often reclaimed and trained up for Fowling, they catch not only 

 fmall Birds, but alfo young F^r/r/(^a. 



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