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the white upper tatlcoverts barred with grey, and the throat 
only tinged with grey. Length 17 inches; culmen 1°2; wing 
13°75; tail 8°75; tarsus 2°8. 
Adult Female: Forehead and superciliary stripe buff ; 
upper parts generally dark brown, mixed with white on nape, 
and most of feathers margined with paler brown ; upper tail- 
coverts white, barred with brown ; primaries and secondaries 
buff on inner, webs, and barred, more or less distinctly, with 
dark brown; under parts and a line beneath the eye whitish 
or tinged with cream-colour; chest copiously and_ broadly 
streaked with dark brown ; abdomen and flanks also streaked 
but more narrowly, and with a more rufous-brown ; irides hazel- 
brown ; somewhat superior in size to the male. 
Young: Above brown, the feathers chiefly bordered with 
rufous-brown ; cheeks dark brown ; facial-ruff and under parts 
pale ferruginous-brown ; flanks streaked sparingly with reddish- 
brown ; upper tail-coverts white; otherwise very like adult 
female. 
Distribution : Found in Southern Europe, Asia and most 
of Africa. 
Habitat: Open country ; cultivated land, &c. 
Genus BUTEO. 
COMMON BUZZARD. 
Buteo vulgaris Leach. 
Adult: Head pale brown, marked with dark brown; rest of 
upper parts dark brown with pale margins to the feathers, except 
tat/-feathers, which are pale brown, or whitish, crossed by 12 or 
13 dark brown shaded bars ; primaries nearly black ; basal half 
of inner webs chiefly white ; under parts white, or creamy- 
white, mottled and spotted, chiefly on breast and sides of body, 
_ with brown ; chin and under tail-coverts unspotted, or almost 
so ; bill bluish-horn colour ; cere and legs yellow ; irides brown. 
Length 20 to 23 inches; culmen 1°4; wing 15 to 16'5; tail 
Q; farsus 3°I. 
Immature Birds: Similar to adults, but of a paler brown 
above, the feathers being margined with very light brown ; 
many white feathers mixed with the brown on nape ; beneath 
