BRITISH BIRDS. 
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THE HEN-HARRIER* 
DOVE-COLOURED FALCON, OR BLUE HAWK. 
(Falco Cyaneus, Lin. — UOifeau St, Martin , Buff.) 
The length feventeen inches ; breadth, from tip 
to tip, fomewhat more than three feet ; the bill is 
black, and covered at the bafe with long briftly 
feathers ; the cere, irides, and edges of the eye- 
lids are yellow ; the upper parts of the body are of 
a blueilh grey colour, mixed with light tinges of 
rufty ; the breaft and under coverts of the wings 
are white, the former marked with rufty coloured 
ftreaks, the latter with bars of the fame colour ; 
the greater quills are black, the fecondaries and 
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