216 HONEY BUZZARD. 



reflections on the wings and back, the feathers 

 white at the base ; tail with three indistinct paler 

 bars, and tipped with yellowish white ; the basal 

 half of the inner webs of the quills white, clouded 

 with pale clove brown in the form of bars. In 

 the collection of P. J. Selby. 



Two other specimens, killed previously, have the 

 head, neck, and under parts white, dashed with 

 pale clove brown ; the back, wings, and tail pale 

 clove brown, upon the shoulders having the 

 feathers tipped with yellowish white ; the cere 

 and legs greenish yellow. In the collection of P. 

 J. Selby.* 



In this genus, and some allied ones, the young 

 are generally clothed in a paler plumage. This is 

 confirmed in the two specimens just mentioned, by 

 the greenish yellow of the cere and legs, which 

 do not seem to attain their brilliancy until after 

 maturity ; and in one foreign species we have 

 repeatedly seen the same distribution of colour. 



MILVUS. Generic characters. Bill of mode- 

 rate strength, cutting margin of the mandible 

 with a slight obtuse lobe, cere short, nostrils 

 placed rather obliquely, eliptical ; wings long, 

 fourth quill longest, the first five notched in 

 the inner webs ; tail long, more or less forked ; 



* Represented Plate I. of Ornithological Illustrations, 

 new series. 



