PLATE LL 



FALCO TINNUNCULUS. 

 KESTREL. 



ACCIPITRES. 



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

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 

 and more beautiful than the male. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



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

 membrane or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Male : Cere and feet yellow. Back and wings rufous brick- 

 colour, with black fpots. Beneath pale ferruginous, with dark longi- 

 tudinal flreaks. Tail rounded at the end ; of a pale grey colour, with 

 a black band near the extremity. Female : lefs bright, and fpotted 

 with dufky colour. Tail pale brown, with many dark flreaks. 



fALCO Tinnunculus ; cera pedibufque flavis, dorfo rufo punclis 



nigris, peclore maculis longitudinalibus 



fufcis, Cauda rotundata. Fn. Suec.—Linn* 



Syjl. Nat. I. 15. 90. edit. 10. 



Kestril. Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol. 1. p. 94. 79. — Supph p. 25. 79. 



The Keftrel, Stannel, Stone-gall, or Wind-hover, Will. orn. p. 84. /. 5. 



Br. Zool. N° 6o 5 



B Kiftrel, 



