RAVTORES. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 81 



FALC0N1D.E. 



THE ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



Falco lagopus, Rough-legged Falcon, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 228. 



,, Mont, Ornith. Diet. 



,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 20. 



Ihtteo ,, ,, Buzzard, Fl,em. Brit. An. p. 54. 



,, Selbv, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 58. 



,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 87. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xviii. 



Falco ,, Buse Pattue, Tejmm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 65. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard is at once distinguished 

 from tlie Common Buzzard last described, by having the 

 tarsi covered with feathers as low down as the junction of the 

 toes. In its habits and powers, however, it resembles the 



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