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RAPTORES. 



FALCONIM. 



FALCONIDJE. 



THE ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



Buteo lagopus. 



Fcdco lagopus, Rough-legged Falcon, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 228. 



MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 20. 



Buteo Buzzard, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 54. 



, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 58. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 87. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Falco BusePattue, TEMM.Man.d'Ornith.vol.i. p. 65. 



THE ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD is at once distinguished 

 from the Common Buzzard last described, by having the 

 tarsi covered with feathers as low down as the junction of 

 the toes. In its habits and powers, however, it resembles 



