found in the County of Sujjex. 1 3 



thefe oblong reddifh fpots, either on the bread or hinder part of 

 the head, but was all over of the fame pale afh-colour, be- 

 coming gradually lighter on the under fide to the belly, which was 

 white. This induced me to conclude (perhaps too haftily) that 

 thefe two birds were male and female of the fame fpecics, and that 

 the brown hawk, with a white jump or ring- tail, was a different 

 fpecies ; but a gentleman in this neighbourhood lately informed me, 

 that his erame-keeper, fome time laft fummer, killed both the Hen- 

 harrier and the Ringtail from the fame nefr,. and that there is no 

 doubt of their being male and female of the fame fpecies. If fo, 

 the difference in the colour of my two birds mult arife from their 

 different ages ; the firft, with reddifh fpots, being, as I fuppofe, the 

 youngeft, and ftill retaining fomewhat of the ferruginous colour of 

 the Ringtail; the other, which was all over of a light afh-colour, 

 I fuppofe to have been an old bird, and had attained to its full co- 

 lour. 



No. 12. — Dark brown Hawk or Buzzard. 



In the winter 1792, two of thefe birds were obferved to frequent 

 the high trees in Dcnn Park, in purfuit of the rooks. One of them 

 was taken, and kept alive in the garden, where I found it, and 

 made a drawing and defcription of it. If it is not a variety of the 

 Moor Buzzard, Falco ccruginofus^ it probably is a new Eritiih fpecies ; 

 for I cannot find, either in. Mr. Pennant's or Mr. Latham's works, 

 any defcription that perfectly agrees with it.. It feems to me to be 

 of lefs dimenfions, of a more llender make, and more active than 

 the Moor Buzzard: but, as I never had this latter bird in my pof- 

 fefiion, I cannot form a proper judgment upon it. 



No. 21. — H nlcd or Royfton Crow. Corvus Comix. 



This bird is, with refpeel to us, a bird of paiTage, being feen 

 only in the winter, and then only near the fea-fide. On the 30th 



of 



