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breaft, are of a pure white; that on the neck ahnoft furrounds it, 

 forming a fpecies of collar: the belly is of the fame color, marked 

 with a few dun<y cordated fpots : the back is waved with afti-color and 

 white ; the tip of each feather white : the coverts of the wings of 

 the fame colors, but more obfcure : the exierior webs of the prima- 

 ries duflcy : the tail rounded, croffed with twelve or thirteen whitifh 

 and dufky bars : the legs yellow. Size of a Hen. 



Is rarely found in the reinoteft parts of Greenland. Inhabits alfo Place 



Sweden; and extends eaftward as far as Simbirjk, lat. 54 1, in the 

 government of Cajan *^ 



H, Kite, Br. Zool. i. N" 53. — Latham, i. 61, N" 43'. 

 Falco Milvus Glada, /"/z/iH. 5a^f. N" 57. 

 Le Milan Royal, De Bujon, i. 197. — PI, Enl. 422. — Lev. Muj. 



"C* With yellow bill and cere : white head, ftreaked with black r 

 body ferruginous, with a few dufky fpots : tail much forked, 

 and ferruginous. 



Weight forty-four ounces. Length twenty-feven inches : extent Size, 



five feet one. 

 , Inhabits the north o£ Europe, as high &% Jarljherg, in the very Flacs^ 



)(02/ fouth of iVbrra'^j' fj but does not extend farther. This fpecies, the 

 \ '^[Se a Ea^e, Lanner, Buzzard, and Kejiril, quit Sweden, in flocks, at 

 approach of winter, and return in fpring j. Oi xhc^a, xht Buzzard 

 znd KeJlril winter at Woronejch, in Ruffia, in lat. 52 |1 ; and, together 

 with the Lanner and Kite, about Afirakan §, in lat. 46. 30 ; but the 

 far greater part of the Kites are fuppofed to retire into Egypt, being 

 feen in September paffing by Conftantinople ^, in their way from the 

 north ; and again in April returning to Europe **, to Ihun the great 



* Extrails, i. 315. + Hammer, Faun. Noriuay. J Amcen. Acad. ir. 



II Extraas, i. 100. § Vol. ii. 142. f Forjkahl, Defer, Arak 7. ** Wih 



Qrn. 75, 



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