BUZZARD FALCON. 



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Afli-colored Buzzard, Ed-vj. ii, ^i.~~Latham, i. 55, N' 35. 48; N» 28.— 2)f 103. Buzzard. 



Buffon, i. 223. 

 FakoButeo. Quidfogel, Faun, Suec. "N^Co.—Br. ZooL i. 54.— Lev. Mu^. 



"C* With a dufky bill, and bluifli yellow cere : head, and hind 

 part of the neck, of a cinereous brown, flreaked with yellow : 

 back brown -, lower part and rump barred with ruft-color, fometimes 

 with white : the coverts of the wings brown j the greater and fcapu- 

 lars fpotted with white ; the three firft quil-feathers black, white at 

 their bafes ; the interior webs of the relt blotched with black and 

 white : the throat and breaft yellowifh, marked thinly with oblong 

 brown fpots : belly white, varied with great fpots of brown : feathers 

 of the thighs long, white, cro fled with fagittal bars of yellow : tail 

 marked with about nine bands of black and light cinereous j the tip 

 white: legs fhort, ftrong, and yellow. Length two feet two inches. 



The American varies in fize, and fometimes flightly in color ; but Places,. 



in both has fo much the habit of the Englip Buzzard, as not to me- 

 rit feparation. It is called in New Tork, the great Hen Hawk, from 

 its feeding on poultry. It continues there the whole year. Lays 

 in May five eggs : the young fly about the middle of June. It is 

 alfo an inhabitant of i^i^^oKV Bay and Newfoundland -, and in Europe 

 as high, as Sondmor, in Norway ;, where, from its attacking the Eagle, 

 it is called Orne-Falk. Migrates, before winter, from Sweden. Is. 

 fcarce in Rujta ; and very, few are found in Sibiria, Is found im 

 winter as low as Woronejch *. 



* In i?a/^a, /«/. jz norths. 



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