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spots, except toward the tip : fore part of the neck 

 and breast rufous, with black shafts, besides which, 

 both on the breast and belly, are interrupted white 

 and pale-ferruginous bars : tail rather short ; deep 

 brown, with two narrow bars of dull white. Mr. 

 Latham, in his Index ornithologicus, supposes 

 this the same with the Red- Shouldered Falcon of 

 Pennant, described in the Arctic Zoology. If so, 

 the bird probably varies much in colour. Mr. 

 Pennant describes the smaller wing-coverts as. 

 ferruginous, spotted with black, and the tail as 

 crossed by seven white bands; the bill slender 

 and dusky, and the legs weak. Native of North 

 America. 



HONEY-BUZZARD. 



Falco apivorus. F. fuscus, alls cinereo fasciatis } subtus alius 



fasciis subferrugineis transversis. 

 Brown Buzzard, with cinereous bands on the wings j beneath 



white, with transverse subferruginous bars. 

 Falco apivorus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Jja. Bondred. Buff. ois. 1. p. 208. 

 Honey-Buzzard. Penn. Brit. Zool. 



This is one of the most elegant of the British 

 birds of prey. Its size is that of a common Buzzard, 

 which it exceeds a few inches in length, on ac- 

 count of its more slender shape : the plumage 

 above is dusky brown, the larger quill-feathers 

 cinereous on their exterior sides a the larger coverts 



