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28. 



-i- COMMON 

 -B-UZZARD, 



Common Birazard, Gen. Syn. i. p. 48. N° 28. — JrBrZool. ii. N° foj. 

 Faico buteo, Bru?i. Orn. p. 5. — Muller, N"" 64. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 164.— 

 Faun. Arag. p. 68. 3. 



A Very common bird on the continent of Europe. In France, 

 known by the name of Goiran ; is moft plentiful, in winter, 

 about Lyons, where it is drefled for the table, and even thought 

 good food, being at that feafon as fat as 2. fowl. The eggs are faid 

 to be cinereous, marked with deeper-coloured fpots*. Inhabits 

 both the northern and fouthern parts oi RuJJla, though lefs frequent 

 than fome other fpecies : is more abundant about Afirachan: 

 common \n Spain: called in the province oi Jragon^ Alferraz, 



33- 

 -hHONEY BUZ- 

 ZARD. 



Honey Buzzard, Gen. Syn.'i. p. 52. N''33. — ^?<!?. Zw/. ii. p. 224. 1. 

 Falco apivorus, Brun, p. 5 . — Muller, ti" 68. 



'T'HIS fpecies is not very common, either in England or on the 

 continent q{ Europe, though inhabiting various parts of it : 

 is feen as far north as Sondmor, in Norway ; common in the open 

 parts of RuJJia and Sibiria, near woods j and feeds much on Li- 

 zards f. It alfo is fond of Mice, being a great enemy to them, 

 and hunting after them in the manner of the Ow/J. The 

 eggs are of a very deep red-brown, with ferruginous blotches of 

 chefnut ||. 



• Hijl, de Lyons, i. p. 198, — I have never feen the eggs, but am informed by 

 Mr. Boys, that they are of a blueifh white, marked with irregular rufous fpotsj 

 the fhape of the egg almoft globular ; ufually three in the nell. 



f ArB. Zool. 



X Brunnich. — Hence called Mu/e^Hog and Muje-haagt, 



II Portland Mufeum„ 



Moor 



