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94 FALCONID^E. 



Buteo vulgaris. BUZZARD. 



Buteo vulgaris, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. & Birds in 



Brit. Mus. p. 10 (1816). 



Falco Buteo, Linnaeus , S. N. i. p. 127 (1766). 

 Falco buteo, Naum. i. p. 346. 

 Buteo fuscus, Macg. iii. p. 183. 



Buteo vulgaris, Hewitson, p. 38 ; Gray, p. 7 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. 

 p. 82; id. ed. 3, i. p. 89; Newton, i. p. 109; Gould, i. 

 pi. 6; Harting, p. 6; Dresser, v. p. 449. 

 The Common Buzzard, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 76. 

 Vulgaris = common, from vulgus = the multitude. 



The Buzzard is generally distributed in Europe and Western 

 Asia ; it was formerly a numerous resident throughout Great 

 Britain and Ireland ; but it is now growing rare. 



[Buteo borealis. RED-TAILED BUZZARD. 

 Falco borealis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 266 (1788). 



B&realis = northern, from boreas, flopeas, the north wind. 



One is said to have been killed in Nottinghamshire in the 

 autumn of 1860 (Sterland and Whitaker, List of Birds of 

 Notts, 1879, p. 9). It inhabits Eastern North America and 

 the West-Indian Islands.] 



[Buteo desertorum. AFRICAN BUZZARD. 



Falco desertorum, Daudin, Traite d'Orn. ii. p. 162 



(1800). 



Buteo desertorum, Newton, i. p. 113; Dresser, v. p. 457. 



Desertorum = of or inhabiting deserts, deserta. 



One was reported as having been killed in Wiltshire ( ( Ibis/ 

 1876, p. 366; 1878, p. 118). It inhabits South-eastern 

 Europe, the whole of Africa, and India.] 



[Buteo lineatus. RED-SHOULDERED BUZZARD. 

 Falco lineatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 268 (1788). 

 Buteo lineatus, Newton, i. p. 113 ; Harting, p. 89. 



