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F. cristata, Cuv. (The Crested Honey-Buzzard of Java). All 

 brown ; head, ash coloured, like that of Europe ; but it has a black 

 tail, with a whitish band on the middle ; a brown crest on the occi - 

 put. Brought from Java by M. Leschcnault*. 



BuTEo, Bechstein. 



The Buzzards have long wings; the tail equal; the bill curved from its 

 base ; the space between it and the eyes naked ; the feet strong. 



The tarsi of some of them are feathered down to the toes. They are 

 distinguished from the Eagles by the curving of their bill from the base, 

 and from the Goshawks, or Goshawk Eagles, with feathered tarsi, by 

 their long wings. We have only one species. 



F. laffopus Gm.f ; the Booted Buzzard, Frisch, Ixxv; Vaill. Afr. 

 xviii; Wilson, IV. xxxiii. 1; Naum. 34. Irregularly variegated 

 with a darker or lighter brown, and a more or less yellowish-white. 

 It is one of the most universally diffused birds ; it is found every 

 where, and has almost always been considered as a variety of some 

 other bird J. 

 But the greater number of Buzzards have naked and scutellated tarsi. 

 The only one in Europe is, 



F.huteo, L.; la Buse Commune, En\. 419 ; Naum. 33. (The 

 Common Buzzard). Brown ; belly and throat more or less undu- 

 lated with white ; the most noxious and common bird of prey in Eu- 

 rope. It remains the whole year in the forests, darts upon its prey 

 from the top of a tree or a hillock, and destroys much game§. 

 Some species are crested. 



Ze ^ac^a, Vaill. Afric. pi. xv. Size of the preceding; brown; 

 small, white, round spots on the sides of the breast, and on the ab- 

 domen ; a black and white crest ; a broad white band on the middle 

 of the tail. A very savage bird of Africa, which preys chiefly on the 

 Hyracesjl. 



* M. Temminck has figured tbis bird (Col. 44), under the name of Buse ptil- 

 orinque. 



\ It is the Falco lagopus, Brit. Zool. Ap. vol. i; the Falco communis^ leucoceplia- 

 liis, Frisch, 75; the Falco Sancti Joharinis, Arct. Zool. pi. ix; the Falc. communis fus- 

 cus, F. variegatus, F. albidus, F. versicolor, Gm., are merely different states of the 

 Common Buzzard. 



I Add the Buse a calotte noire (F. airicapillus, Cuv.), Col. 79, or the Buteo mela- 

 voleucos,\\e\\\. Galer. 14;— the Black Buzzard {F. n/ger), Wils. VI. liii. 1 and 2, 

 which M. Ch. Bonap. thinks is the F. Sancti Joltannis of Pennant. 



§ Add the Rou-noir, Vaill. Afr. 16 (F. jackal, Baud, and Sh.);— the Tachard, Id. 

 19 {F. tachardus, Sh.);— the Buseray, Id. 20 {F. hur$arellus,Sh.)\—ihe Grey-clieehed 

 Buzzard {F.polygenis, Tern.), Col. 325.— the Brown Buzzard (F.fuscus), Vieill. Am.5 ; 

 —the Tachiro, Vaill. 24 (F. tachiro, Sh.)— the Milan Cresserelle, Vieill. Am. 10, bis, 

 and the young female, Col. 180; a species of which, the F. plttmbeus, Spix, VIII. is 

 perhaps the adult, and in which the lateral festoon, in some individuals, is sharpened 

 into a tooth, although the quills are those of the Ignobles. — The Long-winged Buz ■ 

 aarrf (F. p<eroc/es, Tern.), Co].56 and 139.— The Buse a dos tachete {F. pacilonotos, 

 Cuv.), Col. 9. — La Buse viantelee (F. lacernulatus, T.), Col. 427. — La buse pale {F. 

 liventer, T.), Col. 438. — La Buse a queue J'errugineuse {But. ferruginicaudus), Vieill. 

 Am. C. Also, F. borealis, Wils. pi. Hi. f. I. 



II Add the White-crested Buzzard of India (F. albidus, T.), Col. 19. 



N. B. The Buse roussatrc, Tcm. Col. 25, somewhat approaches to the harrier by 



