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Kiftrel, Kaftrel, or Steingal, Turnew. 

 La CrefTerellc. BeJon. ay. 125. 



Brlf. orn. 1. p. 393. N° 27. 



Buff. oif. 1. b. 280. /. 18.— PL enl 401. 



471. 

 Roethel-Geyer. Frifch. 1. S^fam. Maufe-Falck. Frifch. 1. 88. 

 Kyrko-Falk. Faun. Suec. 

 Gheppio, Acertello, Gavinello. Zinan. 88. 

 Poftoka, Splintza, Skoltfch. Scopoli, N° 5. 

 Windwachl, Rittlweyer, Wannenweher, Kramer, 331, 



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The male of this fpecies is much more beautiful than the female ; 

 the former (of which a figure is given in the annexed plate,) weighs 

 about fix ounces and a half: its length fourteen inches ; and meafures, 

 when the wings are expanded, twenty-feven inches between each 

 tip. The female weighs eleven ounces: the colour of the back and 

 wings is more pale and dufky than in the male ; and the middle of 

 each feather is marked with an oblong dark flreak, pointing down- 

 wards : the bread: of a dirty yellowifh white ; and the tail pale 

 red brown, eroded with numerous black bars. 



It is not uncommon in England, and many other parts of Europe j 

 it breeds in the hollows of trees, cavities of rocks, old buildings, &c. 

 It lays four eggs, of a pale ferruginous colour, marked with irregular 

 fpots of a deeper hue *. It feeds on mice, fmall birds, and infecls ; 

 and throws up the fur and feathers in the form of a round ball. 



This bird was formerly ufed in falconry, to catch fmall birds 

 and young partridges. 



* Portland Muftum, 



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