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Genus Burro, 
7, Bure6 VORGARIS 253 s 6: a te Orla eo) Weleds Pl, VL 
Common Buzzarp. 
Formerly very common in many of our counties; it still breeds 
in some of them, particularly in certain parts of Kent. 
S.. Buruo DESERTORUN. « . © » « « « » + Volk PL VR 
Falco desertorum, Daud. Traité d’Orn. tom. ii. p. 162. 
cirtensis, Levaill. 
— vulpinus, Licht. 
—— capensis, part., Schleg. 
— tachardus, Bree, Birds of Eur. vol. i. p. 97. 
— anceps, Brehm. 
Mr. J. Clarke Hawkshaw has favoured me with the skin of a 
Buzzard which, he tells me, was killed at Everley, in Wiltshire, 
in September 1864. After having made a careful examination of: 
the specimen, Mr. J. H. Gurney assures me that it is an example 
of the species to which the above names have been assigned by the 
various authors mentioned, that of desertorum having the precedence. 
The countries frequented by it are Algeria, Mogador, European 
Turkey, the mouths of the Volga, Syria, India, and Ceylon. 
Mr. Gurney considers that there is no specific difference between 
this bird and that which is named in collections Buteo cirtensis. 
He came to this conclusion after examining specimens from Moga- 
dor, Tangiers, Erzeroum, and the mouths of the Volga. It is 
included by Schlegel in his ‘ Fauna Japonica ;’ so that it has a very 
wide range. See 
“The appearance of this bird when alive,” says Mr. Gurney, “ is 
less heavy and more elegant than that of B. vulgaris. My living 
specimen, which was dull-brown when I bought it, has moulted into 
a rich rufous plumage; and one that was alive in the Zoological, 
Gardens a few years since, underwent a similar change.” Accord- 
ing to M. Favier, it nests among the rocks, and the male takes its 
turn in sitting. The egg has a strong resemblance to that of the 
Black Kite, but is a little more pointed, and the ground-colour a 
cream-white, that of the former having a greenish tinge. 
Mr. Gurney states that “the cere, tarsi, and feet of this Buz- 
zard are lemon-yellow ; the irides are sometimes light-hazel, and at 
others yellow, probably assuming the latter colour as the bird 
advances in age; a similar variation, however, which exists in the 
irides of the Common Buzzard is not always referable to age, as 
I have ascertained by experience.” 
9. Burro LINEATUS. 
Red-shouldered Buzzard, 
It becomes necessary to notice this species, a single example 
having been shot at Kingussie, in Aberdeenshire, on the 26th of. 
