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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: th of wing. Itis probably the fastest flier among rapacious birds, being capable ofthe marvellous feat of capturing swallows and martins in the air.It is a summer visitant to this coimtry, and is most often met within the southern counties of England, where, however, it is arare species; and the farther north we go the rarer it becomes.In Scotland it is not known to breed, and it does not range toIreland. It inhabits woods, and breeds in an old nest of the carrioncrow, jay, or some other bird, which it does not re-line. Three eggsare usually laid, and in some rare instances four or five. In sizeand colour they are not distinguishable from those of the kestrel. The hobby is a spirited bird, but in courage and power greatlyinferior to the peregrine. He preys principally on dragon-flies,beetles, and other large insects, and on small birds, such as skylarksand buntings. In falconry, the hobby was trained to fly at suchsmall game as larks, snipe, and quail. MEELIN 211 Merlin.Falco sesalon. Text Appearing After Image: Pig. 71.—Merlin, i natural size. Upper parts greyish blue; underparts reddish yellowwith longitudinaldark brown spots ;tail barred withblack; beak bluish,darker at the tip;cere yellow ; irisdark brown ; feetyeUow; claws black.Female: upper partstinged with brown;lower parts yellow-ish white. Length,eleven to twelveinches. The merl
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