18 HONEY BUZZARD. 
general colour, mottled, spotted, and slightly waved all 
over with a darker shade of reddish brown. 
A third is somewhat of an olive brown general hue, 
with many spots and markings of a rather darker 
colour, and a few large irregular waved lines, here 
and there widened out into a blot of a still darker shade 
of the same. 
A fourth is of a general yellowish rusty red colour, 
handsomely blotted over with darker and lighter mark- 
ings of reddish brown. 
A fifth is a curious mixture of reddish spots and 
markings at the thicker end, with white shewing through 
here and there, and of a dull greyish brown at the 
smaller end, streaked with rows of small spots run 
together, and also dotted with single ones, some of them 
brown, and some of an orange tint. 
A sixth is of a general greenish brown hue, a faint 
reddish cream-colour shewing through, with large mar- 
bled marks of the former, the thicker end being almost 
entirely covered with them. 
A seventh is of a faint reddish cream-colour, which 
is entirely hidden at the thicker end with very dark 
reddish brown, and considerably also towards the smaller 
end with large patches of the same, and a few smaller. 
and rather lighter ones. 
