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Title: Catalogue of the birds of prey (Accipitres and Striges), with the number of specimens in Norwich museum
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Gurney, J. H. (John Henry), 1848-1922
Subjects: Birds of prey
Publisher: London : R.H. Porter
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partsfrom the chin downwards are almost pure white. The bill,as noted by Mr. Stark, was blue-black, cere pale yellow,irides brown, legs and feet pale yellow, claws black. A large series of another American Buzzard, Buteo swain-soni, which was sent to the Museum for comparison, collectedin Canada by Mr. D. L. Thorpe, contained a young bird shoton Sept. 18, 1898, very darkly mottled. It shows what themelanistic phase is at the age of four or five months, different,I think, from any described by ray father (Ibis/ 1889,p. 134). The dark blotches are longitudinal, and the bird,judging from its measurement,is not full-grown. I regret thatMr. Thorpe could not spare this peculiar case of melanism,but he has given us a nestling of the ordinary type, which isvery useful, as we are deficient in nestlings of all kinds : alsoa clutch of five eggs of Circus hudsonius, taken on the banksof the Souris River, Assiniboia, May 26, 1893. Mr. Thorpes collection contained an adult female and ACCIPITRES. 15
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16 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF PREY. two nestlings of Archibuteo ferrugineus (Licht.), and oneof the latter he has also presented. He describes thenest from which it was taken as a large structure of sticksabout 3 feet in diameter, lined with dried reeds, in the forkof a tree, 25 feet from the ground. A photograph of it,taken by himself, is here reproduced (p. 15). Through the kindness of Dr. G. Bauer the Museum hasacquired a female Buteo galapagensis (Gould), collected byhim in July 1891. Tinnunculus alopex (Heuglin).—An adult female fromKeren, Bogos, Eritrea, received through Dr. H. Giglioli.This place is forty miles from the Red Sea, and not farfrom Sennaar, Galabat, and Kordofan, where this fox-coloured Kestrel has been found. It has been twice figured(Cat. Birds in B. M. i. pi. xiv. * j Ibis/ 1861, p. 69);and specimens are preserved in the British, Leyden, Turin,Berlin, Frankfort, Stuttgart, and Vienna Museums. Myfathers remarks on this fine Kestrel, which comes nearest toT. rupi

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