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Identifier: britishbirdswith03butl (find matches)
Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur Gardiner, 1844-1925
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: American Museum of Natural History Library

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^ the side of its block ; they also suffer much fromparasites, both in the feathers and in the intestines. The Peregrine has many local names: Cliff Hawk; Game Hawk; HuntingHawk; Blue Hawk; while in Scotland it is frequently called the Goshawk. I
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Hobby ? ^t The Hobby. 145 In the adults the phunage is bluish-grc) on tlie upper )jarts, barred with adarker tint, the head black, and there is a Ijroad black patcli on either sidedescending from the gape termed the viousfache; the lower parts are white, suffusedwith buff, spotted on the throat and upper breast, and transverseljf barred on theremainder with blackish. Cere and legs bright yellow; irides dark ha/.el ; billhorn colour. Length of male 15 inches, of female 19 inches. Young birds are ashy-brown above, darkest on the head, each feather edgedwith yellowish-rufous; under parts whitish, longitudinally streaked with darkchocolate brown ; tail irregularly barred with reddish-brown, and tipped with white.The nestlings are at first covered with white down. Varieties occur; the writerhas seen a female, obtained in Somerset, that had on the poll and nape the strawyellow feathers characteristic of the Lanner. The Peregrines of the extreme westof England are very white upon the chest,

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