British Birds & Their Eggs : With a New Method of Identification
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It feeds by preference, however, upon large insects, cockchafers, dragon-flies, and the like, capturing and devouring them upon the wing, and these form its chief fare during the summer months. The Hobby's wings, when closed, reach to the end of its tail ; and when on tjie wing, this Hawk may be distinguished from others by its slender form and the greater extent of its finely pointed wings in proportion to the length of its tail., MERLIN— 11 to 124 inches. KESTREL— M to 15i inches. Both are mo...re thickly set birds, and lack the long, attenuated wings of the HoWjy. The Kestrel is, besides, a stationary toverer in mid-air, SPARROW-HAWK— 13 to 15i inches; wings blunt and short ; under parts with fine transverse bars. PEREGRINE FALCON. — Plate 74. Male: 15 inches. Upper parts dark blue-gray, blackish on the head and nape, but lighter towards the tail ; mous- taches black ; throat, fore-neck, and a small patch on the side of the neck clear white ; under surface of body white, with fine, close, dark •cross-bars ; under 162 HAWKS AND HAWK-LIKE BIRDS.
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