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Pernis, Cuv. (1) 
The Honey-Buzzards, with the weak beak of the Kites, have a very 
peculiar character in the space between the eye and the beak, which, 
in all the rest of the genus Falco, is naked, and simply furnished 
with a few hairs, but in these is covered with a dense plumage, the 
feathers of which are cut like scales ; their tarsi are half feathered 
above and reticulated: their tail is equal, wings long, and their beak 
curved from its base like all those which follow. There is but one 
species in Europe. 
F. apivorus ; la Bondrée Commune, Enl. 420; Naum. 35, 36. 
(The Common Honey-Buzzard.) Somewhat smaller than the Buz- 
zard 3 brown above ; variously undulated with brown and whitish 
beneath ; the head of the male ash coloured at a certain age. It 
pursues Insects, and, principally, Bees and Wasps. 
There are some others in foreign countries. 
P. cristata, Cuv. (The crested Honey-Buzzard of Jaya) 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 occiput. Brought from Java by M. Leschenault.(2) 
Burro, Bechstein. 
The Buzzards have long wings; the tail equal ; the beak curved 
from its base; the space between it and the eyes, naked 5 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 beak from 
the base, and from the Goshawks, or Goshawk- -Eagles, with feather- 
ed tarsi, by their long wings. 
F. lagopus, Gm.3(2) the Booted Buzzard, Frisch, a 
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 ; 
kahlii, Gmel., the F. parasiticus, Lath. and Shaw;—F. mississipiensis, Wils. II, 
xxxv, 1, or the Ictinie ophiophage, Vieill. Galer. pl. 17. 
N. B. The Fale. austriacus, Gmel., is the young of the Common Kite. 
(1) Pernis or pernes, according to Aristotle, the name of some bird of prey. 
N.B. The F. rtocourti forms the genus Naucrervs of Vigors. 
(2) M. Temminck has figured this bird, (Col. 44,) under the name of Buse ptil- 
orinque. 
(3) Itis the Falco lagopus, Brit. Zool. Ap. vol. i; the Falco communis 2 leucocepha- 
lus, Frisch, 75; the Falco Sancti Johannis, Arct. Zool. pl. ix ; the Fale. communis 
fuscus, F. variegatus, F’. albidus, F. versicolor, Gm. are merely different states of the 
Common Buzzard. 
