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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: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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ood deal variegated with white; tail lightashy grey, with six dark bands; beneath white, witha central dark chin line; the breast and abdomenwith large oval brown spots, longer on the breast,roiinded on the abdomen; the thigh coverts rufescentwhite, with smaller spots; nnder tail coverts with avery few faint stripes. The male has nsually fewerspots than the female. Irides pale yellow; feet yellow;bill bluish, dusky at the tip; and the cere yellow. In this plumage, the bird, it will be observed, isvery similar to the young of the Levant S)jai-row-Hawk;but it is much smaller. My figures are male and female from India, kindlysent me by Mr. Gurney. They are in adult plumage,but have not attained the five years old livery describedby Mr. Jerdon. They are the birds referred to inthe table. For the sake of comparison I have alsogiven a copy of Riippells figure of Accipiter splienurus,reduced to the same scale of one third natural size,(Vide System. Uebers. der Vog. Nord. Ost. Africas,pi. 2.)
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FALCO ELEONOR JS<. 19T FALCO ELEONOR^. Gene. Vol. I, Page 44. In the first volume, page 44^ I liave given a figureof the adult of this species, (from Bonapartes FaunaItalica/) which, though somewhat stiff in its attitude,is, I believe, a very good drawing of the bird. Itvaries, however, very much in plumage, and owing to itsunfortunate confusion with F. concolor, Temm., manyerroneous descriptions and figures have found their wayinto ornithological works. Thus Hueglin, in his Listof Birds collected on the Red Sea, (Ibis, vol. i, p. 338,)gives F. eleonorcB as synonymous with F. concolor, Riip-pell, and describes the old male as black schistaceousgrey. Professor Blasius, however, (Ibis, vol. ii, p. 432,)is given as an authority for stating that the eggs of thebirds described by Hueglin as F. eleonorce, from theArchipelago of Dahalak, were those of F. concolor andnot F. eleonorcB. There is also a tendency on thecontinent towards the belief in the identity of the twobirds. Swainson, how

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