. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE SWALLOW TAILKD FALCON. mv Kivyish-Lrown, 1}„, lu-ad and throat be nL .Si /'"/"'r'^ .'J"'! "PI"''' Portiorm black and Tl,.; i-arts ^ ""'''''^ louyUudimilly with stHpus of are , cacli I'oatlior bi'ing streaked down its centre witli tho deeper line, and tlie fciithurs of tlie tlii^di are dusky reil. Tlie tail is marked with nine or ten transverse bands, and is slightly forked. The length of this .s|H'cies is not quite two feet.
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. THE SWALLOW TAILKD FALCON. mv Kivyish-Lrown, 1}„, lu-ad and throat be nL .Si /'"/"'r'^ .'J"'! "PI"''' Portiorm black and Tl,.; i-arts ^ ""'''''^ louyUudimilly with stHpus of are , cacli I'oatlior bi'ing streaked down its centre witli tho deeper line, and tlie fciithurs of tlie tlii^di are dusky reil. Tlie tail is marked with nine or ten transverse bands, and is slightly forked. The length of this .s|H'cies is not quite two feet. As its plumage is so dark, it lias lii'iMi termed the JJlack Kite by many authors, and its liouse- liiumting propensiti(\s jiave earned for it the .specific title of "para- siticus," The beautiful bird wliicli is so Well kiuiwn under the aii[ii()priatG title (if tlie SwALLow-XAiLKD Kite, is an inhabitant of various parts' of America, though it has occasion- ally been noticed on the British sill ires, and in virtue of such casual visits has taken its place as one of the 13ritish birds. This species seems to be distributed over a considerablo tract of country, ac- coiding to the observations of ininiy practical ornithologists. Mr. Js'uttal has the following remarks on the habitat of tho Swallow- tailed Falcon. "This beautiful bird breeds iiud passes the suninior in the warmer parts of the United States, and IS also jirobably resident in all tro})ical and temperate Anierija; emigrating into the southern as well as the northern liemisphere. In the former, according to Vieillat, It is found in Peru, and as far as Hiienos Ay. AUABIAN ,7m JEgyptiuA IVuitful valley of the^Ml 'sis i, i hu K ' 1« 1 ' T*' *"'^^'^'1 ^'^ *^^« abundance of the of St. Anthony! n the' foKurt^^ fi°"f «>at river as far as the United States about the c ose of aZ or t^To '^r"^^'- ^'^'^ ""^'P''"' i» ^^^ iu the Mississippi ten4rytwenfvirtbrvb If'&
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