344 FALCONID^. 



Bill of Pertiis apivorus. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Chest white, with blackish brown streaks 

 or spots. 

 a'. Axillai-ies white, barred with brown ; 

 outer under wing-coverts brown, 



forming a large patch apivorus ad., p. 344. 



b'. Axillaries white, tinged or faintly 



barred with rufous buff ptilonorhyHchus imm., p. 347. 



h. Chest brown, varj-ing from light or dark 

 fulvous to blackish or rufous brown. 

 e'. Under wing-coverts transversely barred 

 with black and white, like the ab- 

 domen cekbensts ad., p. 349. 



d. Under wing-coverts not transversely 

 barred. 

 a". Larger, and having a crest from 



]/4 to 3-7 inches long ptilonorhynchus ju.\., p. 347. 



b". Rather smaller ; no distinct crest. . apivurus juv., p. 344. 

 c. Chest black apivorus var., p. 344. 



1. Pemis apivorus. 



Honey Buzzard, Albin, N. 11. Birds, i. pi. 2 (1738). 



La Bondree, Briss. Orn. i. p. 410 (1760) ; Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 420. 



Falco apivorus, ium. >S'. N. i. p. 130 (1766) ; Naum. Vog. Devtschl. 



i. p. 367, Taf. 35, 36 (1822) ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 26 (1827) ; 



Schl. u. Susem. Vog. Ew: Taf. 36 (1839) ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 85 



(1841). 

 Le Tachard, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. pi. 19 (1799); Sundev. Krit. om 



Levaill. p. 25 (1858). 

 Falco poliorhynchus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenh. i. p. 19 (1802). 

 Accipiter lacertarius. Pall. Zoogr. Jiosso-Asiat. i. p. 359 (1811). 

 Buteo apivorus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'JIist. Aat. iv. p. 479 (1816). 

 Aquila variabilis, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. p. 115 (1816). 

 Pemis apivorus, C'tiv. Eegne An. i. p. 322 (1817) ; Gould, B. Eur. 



i pi. 16 (1837) ; Macglll. Brit. B. iii. p. 254 (1840) ; Oray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 24, pi. 9. fig. 3 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 20 (1850) ; Schl. 



Voq. Nederl. Ind. pis. 37, 38, 39 (1854) ; StricM. Orn. Syn. p. 129 



(1855) ; Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 10 (1857) : Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



tab. 5. figs. 6, 7 (1858); Schl. Mus. P.-B. Femes, p. 1 (1862); 

 . Newt. Ooth. Wolky. p. 118 (1864); Govid, B. Gr. Brit. pt. x. 



(1866) ; Sundev. Sv. Fogl. p. 237, pi. xxix. figs. 2, 3 (1867) ; 



