112 BLACK-WINGED KITE. 
with a reddish grey down; when they leave the nest 
they have the head, nape, and upper parts of the body 
of a reddish tint; the chest ferruginous red, and the 
rest of inferior parts white, very slightly “watered” 
with a reddish tint. (Degland.) ' 
There are four specimens in the Norwich Museum. 
I have now brought to a close the description of 
the important and interesting family of the Falcomde. 
I have endeavoured to make the list as correct as the 
present state of ornithology will permit; and I have 
spared no time or labour in the task. ‘There are some 
species admitted whose claims may be doubted, and 
others omitted which a more advanced knowledge of 
the birds inhabiting or appearing along the boundary 
line may bring into the European Fauna. Of this class 
there are three more particularly which may be men- 
tioned here—Fulco Peregrinoides, F. vocifer, and F. 
rupicolus, to the first and last of which my attention 
has been kindly drawn by Mr. Gurney, of whose great 
practical knowledge of the family I have had such fre- 
quent cause to avail myself in the previous pages. 
fF. vocifer has been admitted by Schlegel into the 
European list on the strength of some specimens said 
to have been killed in Greece; but Count Mile, our 
best historian of Grecian ornithology, makes no mention 
of its appearance there, and I think it will be admitted 
that the evidence is too slight. The geographical dis-— 
tribution of birds is a most interesting subject, and it 
requires great care and research to avoid that error 
which is so easily created by the too often doubtfully- 
assigned localities of birds in museums. 
