FALCON, ij-- 



Moof Buzzard, Ge». Sjn. i. p, 53. N" 34.— ^r^f?. Zool. ii. p. 225. L, ^ MOOR BUZ- 



Falco sruginofus. Bran. ^, ^,—Muller, N" 6^.^Faun, Jrag. p. C^.S.—^ ZARD» 



Sej>p. Fog. pi. in p. 15. 



A Female will weigh fometimes twenty-feven ounces. Inhabits 

 England ; found chiefly on the moors : builds on the ground ; 

 the neft connpofed of dried (licks, intermixed with dry/edges or 

 decayed /<?awj- J the lafl: chiefly within : the eggs of a blueifh 

 white *. Common alfo on the continent of Europe, and found as 

 far north as the lafl fpecies ; is a common bird in the fouth of 

 RuJJia, but not met with in Sibiria f. 



Collared F. Gett. Syn. i. p. 56. N° 37. — Aril. Zml. ii. p. ZZ2. G. nc\^ ^V\3■cr\ t? 



Falco rufticolus. Faun. Croenl. ]N° 34. 



nr H I S inhabits Greenland, but is feldom met with, as It fre- 

 quents the moft remote places : is called by the natives Mil- 

 lekulartok, Cigmfy'ing fpotied. In the defert and open places be- 

 tween the Den and Wolga, in the Ruffian dominions, it is alfo feen i 

 but is not a common bird j;. 



• Se.fp, — If the bird known in France by the name of Fau)cPerdrieux, is faid to 

 build on the tops of high trees which grow iingly, efpecially at jiuvergne and 

 ForeK. — HiJ}. de Lyons, i. N' 203. 



t, Ar{l> ^ntU I Dtc. Ruff. i. p. 314. 



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