50 HONEY BUZZARD. 
changing from a very dark and apparently almost black uniform 
colour, to nearly pure white on the breast and neck, with white 
markings on the wings. One he describes as bemg almost 
entirely dark brown, with a few light spots about the neck 
and shoulders, and the tail as having three bars of very dark 
brown—the spaces between them being divided by narrower 
bars of a lighter tint than the former, but darker than the 
ground colour of the tail itself. A second, (described in a 
postscript, at page 795,) of which the predominant colour was 
a light brown, rather darker on the back. The feathers round 
the neck, and also on the breast and legs, had dark margins; 
the quill feathers, black; secondaries, dark brown; tertiaries, 
lighter—all these parts exhibiting a beautiful purple gloss; 
tip of the tail, light yellow, barred like the other; cere, pale 
yellow; iris, grey. The third variety in this interesting series 
had the head, breast, and back of a light brown, with streaks 
and blots of a darker colour. The wings, dark brown with 
light tips; quills nearly black with hght tips. The tail, lke 
that of the first described, but more of a yellowish brown, 
tipped with the same. ‘The fourth had the feathers on the 
top of the head and neck of a dark brown, with light tips, 
giving those parts a mottled appearance; round the eye, and 
between the eye and the bill, dark ash grey; a large patch of 
dark brown on the breast. The wings tipped with ight brown, 
approaching to white on the quill feathers and secondaries; 
tail, as in the bird last described. In the fifth, the whole head 
light ash grey; wings, dark brown tipped with a hghter shade 
of the same; all the under parts white barred with brown. 
The tail, nearly like that of the last, but with a fourth bar, 
or several patches in the form of a bar, at the upper end, 
tipped with light yellow brown. The sixth had the forehead 
white; breast, white, with some patches of brown; round the 
eye and between it and the bill, dark ash grey; neck, white, 
with some dashes of brown; upper part of the wings, white, 
slightly dashed with brown; secondaries and tertiaries, brown 
tipped with white. The tail, barred with two shades of dark 
brown, and tipped with light brown. The seventh had the 
wings alone tipped with white, as also the secondaries and 
tertiaries, the under parts without the brown patches, and the 
dark stréaks much narrowed. The tail as in the last. 
Variations of plumage occur in this species as in so many 
others. In one described by Montagu, the breast was light 
brown; and in another, described by the Hon. H. T. Liddell, 
