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tiefe oblong reddith fpots, either on the -breaft or hinder part of 
the head, but was all over of the fame pale afh-colour, be- 
coming gradually lighter on the under fide to the belly, which wae 
white. This induced me to conclude (perhaps too haftily) that 
thefe two birds were male and female of the fame fpecies, and that 
the brown hawk, with a white rump or ring-tail, was a different 
fpecies; but a gentleman in this neighbourhood lately informed me,, 
that his game-keeper, fome time laft fummer, killed both the Hen- 
harrier and.the Ringtail from the fame neft, and that there is no 
doubt of their being male and female of the fame fpecies. If fo, 
the difference in the colour of my two birds muft arife from their 
different ages ; the firft, with reddifh f{pots, being, as fuppofe, the 
youngeft, and ftilb retaining fomewhat of the ferruginous colour of 
the Ringtail; the other, which was all over of a light afh-colour, 
I fuppofe to have been an old bird, and had attained to its full co- 
lour.. 
No. 12.—Dark brown Hawk or Buzzard: 
In the winter 1792, two of thefe-birds were obferved to frequent” 
the high trees in Denn Park, in purfuit of the rooks. One of them: 
was taken, and kept alive in the garden, where I found it, and: 
made a drawing and defcription of it. If it is not a variety of the 
Moor Buzzard, Falco eruginofus, it probably is a new Britith {pecies ; 
for Lcannot find, either in Mr. Pennant’s er Mr. Latham’s works,. 
any defcription that perfectly agrees with it. It feems to me to be 
of lefs dimenfions,. of a more flender make, and more attive than. 
the Moor Buzzard: but, as I never had this latter bird in my pof-- 
feffion, I cannot form a proper judgment upon it. 
No. 21.—Hooded or Royfton Crow. Corvus Cornix.. 
This bird is, with refpec&t to us, a bird of paffage, being feen 
only in the winter, and then only near the fea-fide. On'the 3oth 
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