BIRDS. ACCIPITRES. 1. Falco. 2 



6. F. HaHaetos. Abov r e brown, beneath white with a 



few brown spots : hind head and neck whitish : cere 

 and legs blue. 



Ofprey. Lewin t. 5. IValcot i. t. 5. Donovan t. 70. 



Length 25 inches : extent^ feet 4 inches : weight 62 ounces. Moun- 

 tainous lakes. flzV/black : iris yellow : head small, flat, the feathers 

 brown with white margins : the back-part throat and neck white 

 mixed with brown : from the eye is a brown band reaching nearly 

 to the shoulder : feathers of the back and wings dull-brown edged 

 with white : breast and belly white with rusty-brown spots: legs 

 feathered just below the knees : 2 middle tail-feathers dusky-brown, 

 "the rest alternately barred on their inner webs with brown and 

 white : claws black. 



7. F. Milvus. Ferruginous-brown : head and chin grey 



with brown lines : cere and legs yellow : tail deeply 

 forked. 



Kite. Lewin. t. 10. Donovan t. 47. Walcot i. t. 10. 



Length 27 inches : extent 5 feet and an inch : weight 44 ounces. 

 Woods. Bill horn-colour : iris pale yellow : neck and breaft ferru- 

 ginous, the middle of the feathers black : belly ferruginous with, 

 fewer fpots : back ferruginous, the feathers dark above in the mid- 

 dle with pale edges : outer quill-feathers dusky-black with obscure 

 bars : tail bright ferruginous, the outer-feathers nearly black : tegs 

 feathered to the knees : claws black. 



$. F. Buteo. Above brown : breast and belly dirty white 

 with rusty-brown spots : cere and legs yellow : tail 

 with dusky bars. 



Buzzard. Brit. ZooL t. 25. Lewin t. 6. Donovan t. 11. 



Length 22 inches : extent 52 : weight 32 ounces. 



Woods. Bill lead-colour, tipt with black : iris white, tinged with 

 red: head and upper part of the breaft pale ferruginous ; lowcr-breaft 

 with dirty-white blotches : throat and back of the head white with 

 yellow-brown ftreaks : fcapulars and wing-coverts tipt with pale 

 ferruginous and dirty white* the two laft coverts with an edge of 

 the fame : belly white, With a few ferruginous fpots : thighs deep 

 ferruginous with deeper bars : inner-webs of the primary quill- 

 feathers white towards the bafe : tail with blackish and cinereous 

 bars, dull-white at the tip : legs feathered below the knees : claws 

 black. 



9. F. apivorus. Above deep brown, beneath white with 



red-brown transverse spots: head cinereous: cere 

 dusky : legs dull yellow : tail with 2 'dusky-brown 

 bars. 



Honey Buzzard. Lewin t. 7. Albin i. t. 2. 



Length 23 inches : breadth 4 feet i : weight 30 ounces. 

 Woods. Bill black : 'iris yellow: chin yellow-white with narrow 

 brown longitudinal ftreaks : breaft and belly with tranfverfe fpots of 

 white and red-brown : tail fometimes with a single cinereous band, 

 and tipt with white : legs feathered below the knees : cfaws 

 dusky. 



10. F. tzruginosus. Chocolate-brown: crown and throat 

 yellowish or whitish; cere greenish yellow: legs 

 Ion?, yellow. 



Moor Buzzarrf. Brit. ZooL t. 27. Lewin t. 8. Walcot. t. 8. 



Length 21 inches : extent 4 feet 3 : weight 20 ounces, 

 Moors. Bill black : iris yellow : body chocolate-colour, with a 

 ferruginous tinge : crown and throat varying to yellow whitish or 

 rufty-brown. ; legs long, slender, feathered to the knees : c/aa-s 

 black. 



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