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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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belly, thighs, and under wing coverts white,with delicate, thin, transverse bars of grey. Primaryquill feathers hair brown, barred above and below witha darker tint, the tips being conspicuously margined 54 LITTLE RED-BILLED HAWK. with white. Tail coverts (upper and lower) white; tailquill feathers white, with three or four broad darkhair brown transverse bars on each feather. According to Swainson, the cere, with basal half ofbill and legs, are of a bright red. In the young bird the under parts are more tingedwith rufous. I have preferred Swainsons English designation ofthis bird, to that of Latham, as we have already aRed-footed Falcon in the British lists. This bird is not figured in Goulds Birds ofEurope. Our figure of this bird is from a beautiful drawingwith which we have been favoured by Mr. Reeve, theCurator of the Norwich Museum. It is an adult malefrom South Africa, and about half the natural size.It forms one of the magnificent collection of Falconidcein the Norwich Museum.
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55 Rapaces—Diurn.Ee.FALCONIDjE. Genus—Falco. (Linnaeus.)Sub-genus—Circus. (Sarigny.) Sub-generic Characters.—Tarsi long and slender; body talland slim; tail long and rounded; wings long; first quill feathershorter than the fifth, the second a little shorter than thefourth, the third or fourth the longest; beak of medium size;cere large, covering more than a third of the beak. PALE-CHESTED HARRIER. Falco pallidus. Circus pallidus, Falco pallidus, Circus Sioainsoni, albescens, dalmaticus, cinereus, Strigiceps pallidus, Busard meridional, Sykes ; Proceedings of Zoolo-gical Society, April, 1832. Keyseeling and Blasius. schlegel. degland. Temminck; Man., vol. iv.,p. 595. Smith. Kattp. Lesson. RuPPEL. Ch. Bonapaete.Ch. Bonapaete. Ceespon. Specific Characters.—Head of male not spotted with pale brown;no dusky streaks on the breast; rump and upper tail coverts white,and barred with brown ash.—Sykes. 56 PALE-CHESTED HARRIER. Measurement.—Length of adult male in the Norwich Museum

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