186 FALCONID^. 



13. Buteo vulgaris. 



The Puttock or Buzzard, Albin, N. II. Birds, i. p. 1, pi. 1 (1738). 

 La Base, £riss. Om. i. p. 406 (1760) ; Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 419 



(1770). 

 Falco buteo, Linn. S. N. i. p. 127 (1760, ex Albin) ; Nawnx. Vog. 



Deutschl. i. Taf. 32, 33 (1822) ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 76 (1843). 

 'i Aquila glaucopis, 3Ierrem, Beitr. ii. p. 22, Taf. 7 (1786). 

 Falco o-laucopis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 255 (1788). 

 ? Falco versicolor, Gm. S. N. i. p. 272 (1788). 

 Falco albus, Baud. Traite, ii. p. 155 (1800). 

 Accipiter buteo. Pall. Zoogr. Mosso-Asiat. i. p. 362 (1811). 

 Buteo vulgaris, Leach, Syst. Cat. Manmi. ^- B. Brit. Mus. p. 10 



(1816) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 46 (1820) ; Gould,B. Eur. pi. 14 



(1837) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 11 (1849) ; Kaup, Coiitr. Om. 1850, 



p. 77 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. pis. 35, 36 (1854) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 27 (1855) ; Pek. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 18G2, p. 144 ; Jerd. B. hid. 



1. p. 87 (1862) ; fichl. Mm. P.-B. Buteones, p. 3 (1862) ; Goidd, 



B. Gt. Br. pt. iv. (1863); Nc%ct. Ooth. Wolley. p. 1.38 (1864); 



Sundev. Sv. Fogl. pi. xxviii. fig. 4 (1869) ; Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



p. 91 (1869) ; Hume, Bough Notes, ii. p. 261 (1870) ; Salvad. Faun. 



Ital. Ucc. p. 11 (1871) ; Neivt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 109 (1871) ; 



Shelley, B. of Egypt, p.200(1872); Schl. Revue Accipitr. p.l05 (1873). 

 Buteo fasciatus, Vieill. Fatme Fron^. p. 17, pi. 8. lig. 1 (c. 1820). 

 Buteo mutans, Vieill. Faun. Frang. p. 18, pi. 8. fig. 2 (c. 1820). 

 Falco mutans, Savi, Nuoi: Giorn. Pisa, xxii. p. 64 (1822). 

 Falco fasciatus, Savi, Nuav. Giorn. Pisa, xxii. p. 66 (1822) ; Rou.v, 



Orn. Pror. pis. 20,21,22 (1825); Savi, Orn. Tosc.ui. p. 195 (1831). 

 Falco pojana, Savi, Nuov. Giorn. Pisa, xxii. p. 68 (1822) ; id. Orn. 



Tosc. iii. p. 197 (1831). 

 Buteo communis, Less. Traite, p. 78 (1831). 

 Buteo septentrionalis, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 42 (1831). 

 Buteo medius, Brehm, V. D. p. 43 (1831). 

 Buteo murum, Brehm, V. D. p. 44 (1831). 

 Buteo fuscus, Macgill. Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 183 (1840). 

 Falco albidus, De Selys, Faun. Belg. p. 55 (1842, wee Gm.). 

 Falco variegatus, De Selys, F. B. p. 54 (1842, nee Gm.). 

 Buteo cinereus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 18 (1850) ; Loche, Expl. Alger. Ois. 



p. 41 (1867). 

 Buteo variabilis, Bailly, Orn. Sav. i. p. 127 (1853). 

 Buteo major, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 268. 

 Buteo minor, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 268. 



Buteo vulgaris, var. obscura, Pels. Verh. z.-h. Wien, 1862, p. 144. 

 Buteo vulgaris, var. etrusca, Pelz. torn. cit. p. 144. 

 Buteo minor, Pelz. torn. cit. p. 144 {nee Heugl.). 



Nestling. Covered with white down ; the sprouting feathers dark 

 brown with rufous margins. 



Young from, the nest. Above sooty brown, most of the feathers with 

 plain rufous margins and mottled with rufous on both webs, having 

 also one or two rounded white spots concealed near the base ; head 

 and hind neck dark brown, the feathers margined with pale ochre, 

 producing a streaked appearance ; sides of face light brown, streaked 

 with darker brown ; chin white ; cheeks and throat white, with small 

 streaks of dark brown ; breast sooty brown, occupying the centre of 

 the feathers, which are ochre at base and near the tip ; centre of the 



