ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



11, 



ACCIPITRES. 



FALCON J D^t:. 



BuTp]o LAGOPus (J. F. Gmelin*). 

 THE ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



Biifi'o Jdfjopuii. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard is at once distiiiguisLed 

 from the Common Buzzard last described, by having the 

 tarsi covered, in front and on the sides, with feathers as Ioav 

 down as the origin of the toes, from which fact it has, with 

 some other species possessing the same peculiarity, been re- 

 moved from the genus Biiteo, and made the type of a genus 

 Arcldhuteo, a course which has met with the approval of many 

 authorities. In its habits and powers, however, it resembles 



* Falro latjopm, J. F. Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1788;. 



