68 BRITISH BIRDS. 
Genus PERNIS. 
The genus Pernis was established by Cuvier in 1817 in his ‘ Réegne 
Animal,’ i. p. 322, for the reception of the Honey-Buzzard, which he 
removed from his genus Buteo, in which Vieillot had erroneously placed 
it. As the Honey-Buzzard was the only species of the genus known to 
Cuvier, it became unquestionably the type. 
There is only one European species of this genus, which may at once be 
distinguished from any other European bird of prey by its feathered lores. 
The genus is confined to the Old World. - Besides the European bird, two 
other very nearly allied species are known, inhabiting some of the islands 
of the Malay archipelago, and two more distantly related—one inhabiting 
New Guinea, and the other South Africa. 
