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COMMON FALCINELLE. 
varied with small transverse brown rays ; but all the 
feathers are tipped with white : on the sides of the 
body are several brown bands : the feathers of the 
middle of the tail are black, edged with rufous, the 
lateral feathers and the quills are bordered with 
bright ash. The winter plumage is not yet ascer- 
tained, but the young have the top of the head of 
a bright grey edged with red: the eye-brows are 
whitish : between the beak and the eye is a brown 
stripe : the sides of the neck and the nape are whitish 
mixed with reddish-ash : the feathers of the back 
and the scapulars are dusky, spotted and edged with 
rufous : the fore part of the neck and upper part of 
the breast are longitudinally rayed with deep brown 
and shaded with rufous : the belly, sides, and lower 
parts are pure white : the wing-coverts are dusky to- 
ward their tips, edged with reddish-white : the quills 
and lateral tail-feathers are bordered with whitish 
ash : the middle tail-feathers are black, edged with 
red : the depressed part of the beak is reddish-ash, 
the tip black : the legs are greyish-green. This species 
is a native of various parts of Europe, and has been 
occasionally taken in England, but according to Tem- 
minck it does not occur in Holland. 
