82.
RED-THROATED
F.
F e m a l e .
+- SPARROW
HAWK.
Red-throated Falcon, Gen. Syn, i. p. 97. N.° 8a.
J ^ E N G T H one foot eleven inches. Bill one inch and a half
lo n g ; yellow, with the bafe and cere dulky : eyelids fur-
nifhed with ftrong black lalhes : throat and fid'es o f the head very
bare of feathers, fprinkled only with narrow ones aim oft like
hairs: the fkin o f a dirty purple: the general colour of the plumage
glofly blue, changing to a greenifh black, except the lower
belly and thighs, which are white : the tail is ten inches in
length, even at the end : legs yellow : claws black.
This, I make no doubt, is the fame with that defcribed in my
Synopjis■, but as the one here mentioned is at leaf! five inches
longer, we may fuppofe it to be the female. It came under roy
infpeftion among a colleffion o f birds brought from Cayenne.
Sparrow Hawk, Gen. Syn. i. p. 99- N° 85.— Aril. Zool. ii. p. 226. N.
Falco mfus, Muller, N° 71 .— Faun. Arag. N° 7.
H I S is found as high as Sondmor, and in the Ferroe IJlands s
in the fouth of Rujfia, but not in Sibrria * : feems fpread al-
moft throughout the old continent, from the above-named
places to the Cape o f Good Hope j and perhaps extends to China
likewife, as we have obferved a bird among fome Chinefe drawings
fo exaftly like as to appear as a mere variety, not more differing
than individuals o f this fpecies do from each other in this
climate.
This bird builds in various manners and places: often in the
deferted nefts o f other birds; alfo in pollard trees, and among
Arft. Zoohreeks
rocks and ruins: lays four or five eggs, o f a dulky white, marked
with ruft-coloured blotches, of irregular fizes and lhapes *. In
former times has been ufed in falconry f .
Pigeon Hawk, Gen. Syn. i. p. io i. N° 86.'
^ jpH IS breeds at Hudfon's Bay, making the neft o f flicks and
grafs, lined with feathers, in the hollow o f a tree: lays from
two to four white eggs, thinly marked with red fpots : the young
fly in Auguft: is known by the name o f Peaififh J.
Ingrian Falcon, Gen. JSyn. i. p. joa. 88.
Falco vefpertinus, Georgi Rei/e, p. '164.
H IS Ipecies is common about the lake Baikal: is known at
Afirachan by the name o f Kober ||. . It has much o f the manners
of the Kejlril, but extends farther eaft than either that bird or
the Hobby, though lefs common than either §.
Great-billed Falcon, Gen. Syn. i. p. 103. N°89*
I N a colleftion of birds from Cayenne, I met with the following,
which I fuppofe to be allied to this bird. Length to the rump
twelve inches: bill very large in proportion to the fixe o f the
bird, at leaft o f twice the ufual proportion; upper mandible
black, the under yellow : about the eyes almoft bare of fea-
* Portland Mu/.
j| Dec, RuJ/.ii, ,p. 142.
f Will. Orn. p. 86>
$ Mr. Pennant.
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t Mr, Hutchins.
thers :
86. -t- PIGEON
HAWK.
INGRIAN F.
89.
GREAT-BILL-
ED F.