HOBBY. 255 



HIGH-HOE. — A name for the Poppinjay. 

 HIOGGA. — A name for the Razor-bill. 



HIRUNDINID^E (Vigors.)— * Swallows, or family of perchers 

 (Insessores, Vigors.)* 



HIRUNDO (Auctores.) — * Swallow, a genus thus characterised. 

 Bill short, much depressed, and wide at the base ; the upper mandible 

 being keeled and bent at the tip ; gape extending as far backwards as 

 the eyes ; nostrils at the base of the bill, oblong, and partly covered 

 by a membrane ; legs with the shank short ; the toes slender, three 

 before and one behind ; the outer toe united to the middle one as far 

 as the first joint ; tail of twelve feathers, generally forked ; wings long 

 and acuminated, the first quill being the longest.* 



HISSING-OWL.— A name for the Barn-Owl. 



HOARSE GOWK.— A name for the Snipe. 



HOBBY (Falco subbuteo, Linnjeus.) 



*Falco subbuteo, Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 47. 114.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 283. — Rail, 



Syn. p. 15. A. 14 Vigors, Zool. Journ. 2. 339.— Dendro falco, Briss. 1. p. 375. 



20 lb. 8vo. p. 109 Will. p. 47 Le Hobereau, Buff. Ois. 61. p. 277 lb. 



pi. Enl. 432 Faucon Hobereau, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 25. 2 ed. — Baum- 



falke, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 36 Hobby, Br. Zool. 1. No. 61—Arct. 



Zool. 2. p. 227. C Will. (Angl.) p. 83.— Lewin's Br. Birds, 1. t. 21 Lath. 



Syn. 1. p. 103. 90.— 16. Supp. p. 28.— Mont. Orn. Diet lb. Supp Pult. Cat. 



Dorset, p. 3 Don. Br. Birds. 4. p. 91 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 21 Bewick's Br. 



Birds, 1. p. 41 Shaw's Zool. 7. p. 193 Flem. 4\.—Selby, 8vo. pi. 18. p. 41.* 



This species weighs about seven ounces ; length twelve inches ; bill 

 blue ; cere and orbits yellow ; irides dusky ; the head and upper parts of 

 the body are of a dark dusky brown, almost black, dashed with ash- 

 colour ; the feathers margined with pale rufous-brown ; over the eye a 

 light stroke ; beneath the eye a black patch, extending in a point from 

 the under mandible down each side of the throat 9 ; chin and throat 

 white, extending round each side of the neck, and partly encircles it, 

 but is broken behind by dusky streaks, and the white becomes more 

 ferruginous as it inclines backward ; the coverts of the wings like the 

 back, but the feathers more slightly edged : quill-feathers dusky black, 

 with oval ferruginous spots on the inner webs ; the breast, belly, thighs, 

 and under tail coverts, ferruginous, palest on the former, marked with 

 dusky streaks ; the tail like the back ; barred on the inner webs with 

 rust-colour, except the middle feathers ; tips whitish ; legs yellow ; 

 claws black. The female weighs about nine ounces, sometimes more, 

 and very much resembles the male in plumage, but not so dark above, 

 and the lighter parts beneath not so ferruginous. The wings of this 

 bird are long and pointed, but do not reach to the end of the tail when 

 closed ; the second feather is longest. 



