PLATE LXIII. 



FALCO TINNUNCULUS,/^. 

 FEMALE KESTRIL HAWK. 



ACCIPITRES. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in each 

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 

 than the Males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like 

 membrane, or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Cere and Feet yellow. Male : Head and Tail grey ; on the laft 

 a black bar near the end ; tip white. Back bright brick colour, 

 with black fpots. Female : Head pale red, back paler, with tranf- 

 verfe ftripes of black. Tail pale brown, with feveral tranfverfe 

 bars. 



Falco Tinnunculus. Lin. Syji. p. 127. N° 17. edit. 12. 

 Xeftrel, Stannel, or Windhover. Will. Orn. p. 84, /. 5. 



Alb in. 1. pi 7. 

 Keftrel. Pen. Br. Zool. N° 60. 

 Keflril. Lath. Gen. Syn. I. p. 94. 79« 

 La CreflTerelle. Brif. Orn. 1. p. 39. A 7 ° 27. 



Buff. Oif. 1. p. 280. /. t8. 



. PI, enl. 401. 471. 



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