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BUTEO FUSCUS. THE BROWN OR COMMON 

 BUZZARD. 



GLEAD. GLADE. KITE. PUTTOCK. 



Fig. 212. 



Falco Buteo. Linu. Syst. Nat. I. 127. 



Falco Buteo. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 23. 



Buzzard. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



La Buse. Falco Buteo. Temm. Man. d'Oru. I. 63 ; IIL 35. 



Common Buzzard. Buteo vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. L 55. 



Buteo vulgaris. Common Buzzard. Jen. Brit. Tert. An. 87. 



Male with tJie upper parts deep hrown, the feathers margined 

 with paler, the lower parts yelloicish-white, icith longitudinal ob- 

 long brown spots, the tail icith numerous brown and pale bands. 

 Female deep broicn above and beneath, the throat streaJced icith 

 whitish, the breast spotted with the same. Young with the fea- 

 thers margined with light red. 



The Buzzard, although the most common of our larger Plun- 

 derers, has been very unsatisfactorily described by authors, most 



