200 ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



slender than that of the common bird, but the 

 wings, tail, and plumage, are more ample. The 

 head is in proportion small, and the bill weak. 

 One of our East-Lothian specimens agrees very 

 closely with that described by Mr Selby. The 

 head, neck, throat, and breast are yellowish white, 

 with broad triangular spots, and lengthened streaks 

 of brown on the latter ; the head and neck nar- 

 rowly streaked with markings of the same colour. 

 The belly in front of the thighs is deep umber 

 brown, forming a band across ; upper parts umber 

 brown ; the feathers edged with yellowish white, 

 tinted with reddish ; the quills darker in shade, 

 and fading towards the base to fine yellowish 

 white, marked with a few dark incomplete bars ; 

 the upper tail coverts and base of the tail white, 

 the remainder of the latter umber brown, banded 

 towards the tip with a deeper shade, and having 

 the whole tinted with reddish. The white colour 

 of the base of the tail seems a constant character 

 in all the specimens we have examined nearly 

 without variation ; the feathers of the thighs are 

 yellowish, streaked with umber brown, those 

 clothing the tarsi short and thick, of a paler tint, 

 and narrowly streaked with brown. 



In another specimen, the colour of the upper 

 part is deeper and more solid, the streaking of the 

 breast and throat broader, and the tips of the tail 

 coverts barred with umber brown, on a pure white 



