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it is found every where, and has almost always been considered 
as a variety of some other bird.(1) 
But the greater number of Buzzards have naked and scutellated 
tarsi. The only one in Europe is, 
F. buteo, L.; la Buse Commune, Enl. 419; Naum. 32, (The 
Common Buzzard.) Brown; belly and throat more or less un- 
dulated with white; the most noxious and common bird of 
prey in Europe. It remains the whole year in the forests, 
souses upon its prey from the top of a tree, and destroys much 
game.(2) 
Some species are crested. , 
Le Bacha, Vaill. Afric. pl. xv. Size of the preceding ; 
brown ; small, white, round spots on the sides of the breast, 
and on the abdomen ; 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 Hyraces.(3) 
Circus, Bechstein. 
The Harriers differ from the Buzzards in their elevated tarsi, andin 
a kind of collar on each side of their neck, formed by the tips of the 
feathers which cover their ears. 
There are three species in France, which have been multi- 
plied by the nomenclaturalists on account of the variety in their 
plumage. 
F. pygargus, L.3 LaSoubuse, En. 443 and 480; Naum. xxxviii, 
2, and xxxix, 1 and 2. Brown above; underneath, fawn coloured, 
(1) Add the Buse acalotte notre, (F. atricapillus, Cuy.) Col. 79, or the Buteo me- 
lanoleucos, Vieill. Galer. 14;—the Black Buzzard (F. niger,) Wils. V1, liii, 1 and 
2, which M. Ch. Bonap. thinks is the F. Sanct. Johan. of Pennant. 
(2) Add the Rouw-noir, Vaill. Afr. 16 (F. jackal, Daud. and Sh.);—the Tuchard, 
Id, 19 (F. tachardus, Sh.);—the Buseray, Id. 20 (F’. bursarellus, Sh.);—the Grey 
cheeked Buzzard (F. polygenis, Tem.) Col. 325.—the Brown buzzard, (F. fuscus) 
Vieill. Am. 5;—the Tuchiro, Vaill. 24 (F. tachiro, Sh.)—the Milan Cresserelle, 
Vieill. Am. 10, bis, and the young female, Col. 180; a species of which the F. 
plumbeus, 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 Buzzard (F. pterocles, Tem.) Col. 56 and 139.—The 
Buse a dos tacheté (F. pzxcilonotos, Cuv.), Col. 9.—La Buse mantelée, (F. lacer- 
nulatus, T.) Col. 427.—La buse pale, (F. liventer, T.) Col. 438.—La Buse d queue 
ferrugineuse, (But. ferruginicaudus, ) Vieill. Am. 6. 
Also, F. borealis, Wils. pl. lii, f. 1. Am. Ed. 
(3) Add the White-crested Buzzard of India, (F. albidus, T.) Col. 19. 
N. B. The Buse roussatre, Tem. Col. 25, somewhat approaches to the Harrier 
by its elevated tarsi, but is deficient in the collar; the transitions between these 
two divisions, also, are almost insensible. 
