60 CLASS AVES. 



The Java Honey Buzzard ; La Bondree huppee de Java, 



Cuvier. 



Altogether brown, with the head ashy like ours, but 

 the tail black, with a whitish band over the middle, a 

 brown crest on the occiput. Brought from Java by 

 M. Leschenault. 



The F. Ptilorhynchus, Temm. not Bechst. pi. col. 

 t.44. 



The Crested Buzzard. Buteo cristatus, Vieil. 



Crested ; head white and brown ; above feathers 

 brown, red edged ; beneath white ; neck and crest 

 with some brown spots ; quills black ; tail brown ; 

 beneath whitish ; sides of neck and over eye a brown 

 band. New Holland. 



The BuzzAKDs, properly so called, (Buteo, Bechstein) 

 Circus A. Vieillot. 



Have long wings ; the tail feathers of equal length ; 

 the beak bent from its base ; the interval between it 

 and the eyes featherless ; the legs strong. 



Some of them have the tarsi feathered to the toes. 

 They are distinguished from the eagles by the beak 

 curved from the base, and from the goshawks by the 

 feathered tarsi and long wings. We have one spe- 

 cies. 



The Rough-footed Falcon, Penn. (F. pennatus) Frisch. Ixxv. 

 Vail. Afr. t. 18. is the F. lagopus, Penn. not the P. 

 pennatus of Gm. See Temm. Man. 45. 



Varied irregularly with brown more or less bright, 

 and white more or less yellow ; is one of the most 

 extended species, being found almost everywhere. 



