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HIGH-HOE. — A name for the Poppinjay. 
HIOGGA. — A name for the Razor-bill. 
HIRUNDINIDiE (Vigors.) — * Swallows, or family of perchers 
(^Insessores, Vigors.)* 
HIRUNDO (Auctores.) — * Swallow, a g-enus thus characterised. 
Bill short, much depressed, and wide at the base ; the upper mandible 
being- keeled and bent at the tip ; g'ape extending- as far backwards as 
the eyes ; nostrils at the base of the hiU, 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 suhhuteo, Linnaeus.) 
*Falco subbuteo, Lath, Ind. Orn. 1. p. 47. 114. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 283. — Bail, 
Syn. p. 15. A. 14 Vigors, Zool. Journ. 2. 339.~—Dendro falco, Briss. l.p. 375. 
20 Ib. 8vo. p. 109 Will. p. 47 Le Hobereau, Buff. Ois. 61. p. 277 Ih. 
pi. Enl. 432. — Faucon Hobereau, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 25. 2 ed — Baum- 
falke, Bechst. Tasscbenb. Deut. 1. p. 36. — Hobby, Br. Zool. 1. No. 61 — Arct. 
Zool. 2. p. 227. C Will. (Angl.) p. S3.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 21 Lath. 
Syn. 1. p. 103. 90. — Ib. Supp. p. 28. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — Ib. Supp. — Pult. Cat. 
Dorset, p. 3. — Don. Br. Birds. 4. p. 91. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 21. — Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, 1. p. 41. — Shaiv’s Zool. 7. p. 193 Flem. 41 . — 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 ; 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 hack ; 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, hut do not reach to the end of the tail when 
closed ; the second feather is longest. 
