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Identifier: sportsmansbritis00lyde (find matches)
Title: The sportsman's British bird book
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915
Subjects: Game and game-birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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p-likemarkings ; the bare parts beingreddish yellow. From the evidence affordedby this species there can be littledoubt that the grey tint of adultfalcons and hawks generally isa permanent breeding-plumage,which has been acquired by bothsexes ; the female in the presentgenus being in the course ofacquiring this special dress. The summer home of the red-footed falcon is Russia and otherparts of eastern Europe, as wellas western Siberia. Stragglers reach Finland and the south of Sweden from time to time, while othersvisit the eastern coasts of Great Britain, and in some instances spreadfarther over the islands, a single example having been recorded in1882 from Ireland. Nearly all these wanderers occur in spring andsummer, and not during the winter-migration, when this species wendsits way in thousands to South Africa. About thirty instances of theoccurrence of this falcon in the British Isles were recorded up to theend of last century, several of these including two or more individuals.
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KED-FUOTEIJ FALCON. Merlin ^^^ ^^y ^^ inferred from the remarks made in (iEsalon reffulus) connection with some of the foregoing members of the group, considerable diversity of view obtains among ornithologists with regard to the classification of the falcons. This diversity is most strongly noticeable in the case of the merlin, or 3^4 FALCON AND EAGLE GROUP merle (blackbird) falcon, for whereas those writers who separate thegcr-falcons from Falco include in that genus the present species, thescheme here followed, which does not recognise the generic distinctnessof the ger-falcons, refers the merlin to a separate genus. On thisscheme, the name of the species is ^salon regidus, in place of themore familiar Falco icsalou. The four species of merlin (inclusive of the red-headed Africanspecies, sometimes separated as Chicqueraj are small falcons collectivelycharacterised by the wing being more rounded than in the gcr-falcons,

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