HO MOOR BUZZARD. 



we found two Lizards entire, with their heads 

 lying towards the mouth, as if they sought to 

 creep out." Mr. Willughby adds, that it differs 

 from the Common Buzzard in having a longer 

 tail, an a, h-coloured head, the if ides of the eyes 

 yellow, thicker and shorter feet, and in the broad 

 transverse dim beds or strokes in the wings and 

 tail* which are about three inches broad. 



The most expressive figure of this bird is that 

 in the folio edition of the British Zoology, 



MOOR BUZZARD. 



Falco &ruginosus. F. fuscus } vertice luteo, cera pedibusque 



jftavis. 

 Brown Buzzard, with the crown of the head luteousj the cere 



and legs yellow. 

 Falco seruginosus. F. cera virescente, corpore griseo, vertice 



gula axillis pedibusque luteis. Lin. Syst. Nat» 

 Moor Buzzard. Will. orn. Penn. Brit. Zool. Lath. syn. 

 Le Busard. Bug. ois. 1. p. 21 8. pi. 10. PL Enl. 424. 



Size smaller than that of the Falco apivorus, 

 to which it seems extremely allied, but differs in 

 colour, which is a deep subferruginous browni, 

 except on the upper part of the head, which is 

 distinguished by a large yellow-ferruginous patch, 

 sometimes accompanied with a few scattered spots 

 of the same colour on the upper part of the neck, 

 and sometimes even extending in a continued bed 

 of colour over the neck and shoulders: the bill is 



