ClassII. honey buzz ARD. 191 



dull brown color, marked with three broad dufky 

 bars i between each of which are two or three of 

 the fame color, but narrower : the legs are ihort, 

 ftrong, and thick : the claws large and black. 



After the publication of the folio Zoology^ Mr. 

 Plymly favored us with a variety of this fpecies, 

 engraved in the additional plates, fuppofed to be 

 a female, being fhot on the neft: it was entirely of 

 a deep brown color, but had much the fame 

 marks on the wings and tail as the male; and 

 the head was tinged with afli color. There were e g c s. 

 two eggs in the neft, blotched over with two reds 

 fomething darker than thofe of the keftril ^ though 

 Mr. Willughhy fays they are of a different color : 

 that naturalift informs us, that this bird builds its 

 neft with fmall twigs, which it covers with wool ; 

 that its eggs are cinereous, marked with darker 

 fpots : as he found the combs of wafps in the neft, 

 he gave this fpecies the name of the honey-buzzard: 

 he adds, that it feeds on the erucas of thofe in- 

 fers, on frogs, lizards, ^c. and that it runs very 

 fwiftly like a hen. 



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